Associate Member Benefits. Associate Members shall be entitled to the following benefits: • Associate Members are recognized on the MICS web site as an Industry Affiliate Program Member. • Associate Members will have an option to obtain a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable (except to a successor of such Associate Member’s business and assets relating to the subject of this Agreement), internal use only license to non-commercial use of the MICS Project intellectual property (IP) generated during their membership period. • Associate Members are given an option to negotiate a commercial license to IP rights on reasonable terms and conditions for MICS Project IP generated during their membership period, provided no Principal Member has exercised its six month option rights to such MICS Project IP. • Associate Members are given early access to all submitted publications (i.e., conference and journal papers) as well as software tools and libraries via a password-protected portion of MICS’s website. • Associate Members are given the opportunity to meet, interact, and recruit MICS’s students, who are educated in various areas related to multifunction integrated circuits systems. Associate Members are given access to a student resume database via a password-protected portion of MICS’s website. MICS will provide specific assistance with student recruiting, including posting of notices of recruiting events, circulation of e-mail recruiting announcements, the use of group facilities for in-lab recruiting events, personal introductions (facilitated by MICS faculty) to students of interest, and faculty attendance at recruiting functions. MICS can also help identify appropriate internship and co-op students. • To more strongly xxxxxx interaction, a faculty will be designated as a point of contact for each Associate Member. This faculty member will be the first point of contact for the Associate Member. Associate Members will also receive a copy of the annual report, which describes the research activities within MICS. • Upon an Associate Member’s request, faculty or students of MICS can provide informal advice, more substantial technical consultation for an additional cost, subject to Virginia Tech’s consulting policies, or can recommend suitable experts. • Each Associate Member will be given access to the MICS newsletters and recorded MICS seminars.
Associate Member Benefits a. Value Created by AEEC, AMC, and FSEMC: AEEC, AMC, and FSEMC cooperatively establish common technical standards and develop shared technical solutions that no one organization could develop independently. The primary benefit of Associate Membership is to ensure the continued viability and success of these industry activities. Active participation and financial support provided by Associate Member are critical factors that enable the AEEC, AMC, and FSEMC to create value by improving cost effectiveness, increasing productivity, and reducing lifecycle costs for airlines; aircraft and flight simulator manufacturers; avionics suppliers; and aviation, maintenance, training, and communication service providers. Associate Members also benefit from the information exchange among participants in the activities, ARINC Standards, and other technical deliverables that result from the work of these activities.
Associate Member Benefits. The Parties acknowledge and agree that admittance of [NAME] includes the following benefits as an Associate Member of MRC:
