Dear Edinburgh Innovations,

For the following request, please use the following definitions:

A patent grants an inventor the exclusive rights to his or her invention. A patent holder can stop other people from selling, manufacturing, producing, or using the invention for a certain period of time.1
Licence: Permission for the licensee to use the intellectual property rights2
Exclusive Licence: A licence that allows only the named licensee to exploit the relevant IP rights, the licensor is also excluded from exploiting these IP rights.3
Non-Exclusive Licence: A licence that grants any number of licensees to exploit the IP.4
Health Technology: ‘Health technology as defined by the WHO: “A health technology is the application of organised knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives.’5
Non-Disclosure agreement: A non-disclosure agreement is a legally binding contract that establishes a confidential relationship. The party or parties signing the agreement agree that sensitive information they may obtain will not be made available to any others. An NDA may also be referred to as a confidentiality agreement.6

1https://www.upcounsel.com/what-is-a-pate...
2-3 https://www.taylorwessing.com/synapse/co...
4https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topic...
5https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nda...
6https://www.ed.ac.uk/files/atoms/files/e...

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please provide me with information on the following:

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In concordance with the Edinburgh Essential Medicines Position Statement6, please link the following:
1. Where “information concerning negotiations regarding technology transfer with a third party, the specific health technology concerned, and the identity of the third party” is publicly available,
2. Where technology transfer agreements are published in full/ as redacted versions,

Additionally, please state whether a “committee that monitors and promotes the adherence to the goals and provisions committed to by the University of Edinburgh in this policy” was established and if so, how many meetings there have been.

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Yours Sincerely,

Rachel McCormick