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Licensing |
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 | The Kansas City Plant has an active licensing program through which our intellectual property can be licensed to nonfederal partner(s). IP includes patent applications, patents, copyrights and trademarks. |
Benefits
The benefits of this program are many. For one, it allows the maturation and commercialization of technologies that were developed to support NNSA’s mission needs, by other federal agencies, or by U.S. industry. It also ensures legal protection for Kansas City Plant partners’ commercial interests. Finally, it provides royalties to the NNSA for use in technology maturation, as well as for NNSA incentive awards to its authors and inventors.
Funding
When an entity decides to license a Kansas City Plant technology, a non refundable license payment is paid by the licensee in the following categories
 | License issue fees | | Running royalties on sales | | Minimum annual royalties |
Requirements
In order to license Kansas City Plant IP, the licensee will be asked to provide information about its company and a commercialization plan for the technology. The U.S. government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, royalty-free license to all Kansas City Plant IP for government use. Additionally, each licensing agreement will have the following negotiable items:
| Level of exclusivity | | Field(s) of use | | United States manufacturing requirements | | NNSA rights, if applicable, to licensee-created software |
For more information on our licensing program, or to begin licensing discussions, contact:
Caron O’Dower
816.997.2645
codower@kcp.com
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