Clearing Confusion, maybe...
Question:
"I do not know if the agreement we have is exclusive. Can someone else make an agreement with SIAL"
Answer:
The agreement with SIAL gives KBLB the exclusive rights to the commercial use of all products arising from the 200 spider genes KBLB provided to them. Source, KBLB 10k dated April 15th, 2011
SIAL retains all rights to sell, FOR PURPOSES OF RESEARCH ONLY, products and discoveries arising from its agreement with KBLB (including, but not limited to ZFN's, reagents, materials, proteins, silk samples,...etc) relative only to the 200 spider genes KBLB provided them. KBLB retains EXCLUSIVELY all commercial rights on all products developed utilizing any part(s) of discoveries arising from the use of any of the 200 spider genes it provided to SIAL.
Example:
As it relates to "RESEARCH", and only research, SIAL can sell any of the lab products it develops in conjunction to the announced agreement between KBLB/SIAL for the 200 Spider Gene ZFN's and covered under the terms of the agreement, to anyone they want to.
If you are a company that wants to see if by incorporating 100% banana-spider drag-line silk into your pizza box to discover by doing so if the the pie stays hotter longer, SAIL says simply "here's your ZFNs". Go ahead and knock in/knock out/ any trait(s) you want to see into your silk worms so you can raise your own worms and harvest your own silk to do as much research as you want in your search to discover how to use the harvested banana-silk in the manufacture of the strongest/warmest/cleanest pizza box in the world.
If your research uncovers that you can keep a pie warmer longer, and you think that if you mass produce your new spider-silk pizza box that your gonna have pizza delivery companies worldwide flocking to buy your invention, well great for you. But, before you can manufacture the boxes you are gonna have to license the use of the banna spider silk (the main component used the production of the SpiderBoxes that makes them the best boxes in the world) from KBLB before you can go into commercial production of the spider pizza box.
Replace pizza box with (blank)...and banana-spider silk with (any of the 200 spider genes covered in the KBLB/SIAL agreement + likely combinations of them) and incorporate an infinite number of commercial applications and you understand how KBLB could use their agreement with SIAL to prosper. FWIW
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