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-University of California-
Offices: Irvine, California
UC Office of Technology Alliance, located on the campus of UC Irvine, was
established in 1965 as the ninth campus in the University of California
system and is the largest research university in the world. The UC system
has 15,000 faculty researchers, carries out $4 billion in research annually
and manages three Department of Energy National Laboratories (Lawrence Livermore,
Lawrence Berkeley and Los Alamos).
Offices: Los Angeles, California
UCLA Office of Intellectual Property was established at UCLA in 1990, and
reports to the Vice-Chancellor for Research as part of the Office of Research
Administration. They work with campus inventors to facilitate transfer of
technologies created at UCLA into the commercial sector for public use.
The scope of OIPA activities include: Commercially evaluating new technologies;
Determining patentability and commercial value; Prosecuting patents; Marketing
and licensing inventions; Negotiating license agreements and Material Transfer
Agreements; and Receiving and distributing royalties and other income to
the inventors, UCLA Campus and its Departments.
Offices: San Diego, California
UCSD Technology Transfers & Intellectual Property Services recognizes the
importance of fostering the commercial development and utilization of technologies
that result from research activities on campus for the public good. The
UCSD Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services (TechTIPS) promotes
and facilitates this process. With its close proximity to UCSD researchers,
TechTIPS is ideally positioned to manage the intellectual property developed
at UCSD and to provide educational and information services on intellectual
property matters to the UCSD community.
Offices: Gainesville, Florida
The Office of Technology licensing at the University of Florida (UF) was
established in 1985 to work with inventors to facilitate the transfer of
technologies created at UF to the commercial sector for public benefit.
They are dedicated to assisting employees who feel they have something new
and useful, that is potentially patentable or copyrightable.
Offices: Chicago, Illinois
OTM works to ensure that UIC maintains its reputation as a world class research
institution with an outstanding faculty. They rely on their staff, external
contacts, and legal, business, and financial expertise to support inventors
and help partner companies develop UIC technologies. OTM is dedicated to
helping companies license UIC technologies, and they will assist with everything
from sourcing inventions to negotiating agreements, options, and various
licenses.
Offices: Iowa City, Iowa
The objectives of the University of Iowa Research Foundation are to enable
public use of intellectual property created at the University of Iowa and
to advance research at the institution. The University's Technology Innovation
Center fosters the development of new business ventures that make the use
of advanced technology.-University of Kentucky-
Offices: Lexington, Kentucky
University of Kentucky (UK) licenses technology discovered during research
to companies that can apply the technology to improve their products. This
technology transfer from a university lab to a company production line not
only benefits the company, but stimulates economic development throughout
the state. The most important result of technology transfer is that it directly
benefits all of them as consumers.
Offices: Lafayette, Louisiana
The vision for the Center for Business and Information Technologies (CBIT)
is to support the University's economic development agenda through business
and information technology research, development, and technology transfer.
The Center sees conducting research, developing software and systems, and
creating commercializable products and services to transfer technology to
the state and the region as its strategy for economic development and diversification.
Offices: College Park, Maryland
The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is the technology transfer
office at the University of Maryland College Park. As an office within the
Division of Research, OTC facilitates the transfer of cutting-edge technologies
developed at the University of Maryland as well as at smaller universities
in the University System of Maryland to business and industry. OTC develops
and manages a high-quality portfolio of diverse technologies, ensures intellectual
property rights through patents or copyrights and negotiates and executes
licensing agreements in order to provide benefits to the university and
the local economy.
Offices: Ann Arbor, Michigan
UM Tech Transfer is the University organization responsible for the transfer
of University technology to the marketplace. Their organization consists
of their central Office of Technology Transfer and one satellite office
in the College of Engineering. Both offices work closely together to provide
responsive, professional service to their inventors and industry partners.
Their licensing staff share responsibilities between the central office
and the satellite office to ensure a consistent interface for all your technology
transfer needs.
Offices: Minneapolis, Minnesota
PTM's mission is the proprietary transfer of University of Minnesota's technology
for commercial use in the public good consistent with the University's mission.
PTM seeks to identify and protect commercializable University technology,
including inventions and copyrightable materials, and transfers these technologies
to teh private sector through licensing or by participating in starting
new companies.
Offices: Columbia, Missouri
The Office of Technology & Special Projects (OTSP) was established in September
1999 as a partnership of the University of Missouri System and its four
campuses. Arising from the former University Patents and Licensing Office,
the OTSP has more than doubled in staff and budget and takes a more aggressive,
entrepreneurial and faculty- and industry-friendly approach to commercialization
of University technology.
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