Master Alliance Provisions Guide (MAPGuide)

Gates Foundation – BioNTech, TB & HIV Product Strategic Letter Agreement

  • Protecting & sharing information | Publication of Results

3. Global Access Commitments

As a condition to the Foundation making the Foundation Investment and to ensure satisfaction of the Charitable Purpose and Global Access, the Company agrees to the following (collectively “Global Access Commitments”): […]

(k) Publication; Access to Data and Information. The Company will (in addition to the publication requirements of any grant agreement with the Foundation):

(i) publish the results and information developed in connection with each Project within a reasonable period of time after such information or results are obtained, subject to reasonable delays or limitations on content of such publications that are necessary to protect intellectual property and trade secrets covering the development and Platform Technology itself. All publications must be made in accordance with “open access” terms and conditions consistent with the Foundation’s Open Access Policy (available at: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General Information/Open-Access-Policy), which may be modified from time to time; and

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