definiens: means the equivalent of a full - time employee of e ither Party ( including normal vacations, sick leave, and other similar matters ) to the extent per forming scientific, medical, technical, managerial, or other activities . An FTE charged to either Party will rep resent the actual time a full - time employee of such Party spends working on activities assigned to such Party under the Research Plan, Development Plan or Joint Commercialization Plan as recorded in such Party ’s project time reporting system . For the avoidance of doubt, the time will be recorded in a manner such that no employee of either Party can report him / herself as more than one ( 1 ) FTE in any given month . An FTE is measured on the basis of a total of one thousand eight hundr ed ( 1,800 ) hours per year . FTE efforts will not includ e the work of general corporate or administrative p ersonnel, including legal services relating to patent activit ies, accounting and other finance activities, and o ther G&A activities