Reminder on nondisclosure agreements
February 11, 2021
If your work at the university involves the exchange of proprietary or confidential
information, then you should be working through UAF’s assigned staff to execute a
nondisclosure agreement, or NDA. NDAs, also referred to as confidential disclosure
agreements and proprietary information agreements, are handled by staff at UAF’s Office
of Intellectual Property and Commercialization and Office of Grants and Contracts
Administration. Email uaf-nda@alaska.edu to reach the assigned staff members, and you will receive a prompt response.
NDAs are needed most often in the research context, though they are used in other
contexts as well. Typically, university researchers contemplating or engaged in a
collaborative project need to exchange proprietary information with the partner. A
researcher may not sign an NDA on behalf of the university. However, the researcher
will be asked to sign an acknowledgement that they will comply with the terms of the
agreement.
UAF has a template NDA which may be modified under certain circumstances to the acceptance
of all parties. Negotiation with the other party and execution of the NDA usually
takes about one or two weeks. NDAs submitted by partners often contain provisions
outside the bounds of state and university policies and can require additional negotiation.
Please email uaf-nda@alaska.edu with any questions or if you need to set up an NDA.