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Patent Filings Gone Wild (or The Biggest Mistake You Can Make Under the...
The impending shift from a "first to invent" to a "first inventor to file" structure under the recently passed America Invents Act is causing quite a bit of turmoil in the technology transfer industry....
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Patent Mapping Tools: Sometimes a Picture Is Worth a Couple Hundred Words
Last week, a tech transfer professional at a university asked me which patent analysis tools Fuentek uses in our market-based technology assessments. Our conversation then evolved into a discussion...
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External Advisory Boards: A Short-Term Tool for Tech Transfer (or “Not Mr....
I was recently asked for my insights about technology transfer office (TTO) use of external advisory boards or committees. Such boards have been frequently cited in reports and the press as a useful...
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What to Do When a Patent Is a Couch Potato: An AUTM-Eastern Session
I'm back, with another post about the AUTM® Eastern Region Meeting, which I first blogged about last week. Today's topic: The workshop session "Strategies to Offload Patents that Are Doing Nothing for...
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University Translational Research to Close the Valley of Death: Trends, Advice
In her recent Wall Street Journal article "Universities Push Harder Into Realm of Startups," reporter Ruth Simon observed that "universities are stepping up efforts to create 'spinouts,' or business...
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Lean Startup Principles Apply to Tech Transfer: A Dispatch from Poland
As I find myself back in Poland to deliver another round of training courses on entrepreneurship to university researchers, I’m reminded of Steve Blank’s fireside chat at the AUTM® national meeting in...
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Post Yourself at the Researcher Revolving Door: Advice for Technology Transfer
Last month, Technology Transfer Tactics ran an in-depth article on best practices for handling departing faculty researchers, post-docs, visiting researchers, and the like. As one of the sources...
View ArticleDo TTOs Consider Market Potential When Patenting Innovations? Poll Results...
Ask anyone who works in intellectual property management and they’ll tell you: Patents ain’t cheap. (Well, some would use better grammar, but the sentiment is the same.) We’re talking $20K for a U.S....
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Getting Faculty on Your Side through Systematic Screening and Interns:...
A recent conversation on one of the AUTM® discussion groups focused on formalizing a technology transfer office's (TTO's) triage process. The director initiating the discussion was contemplating using...
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Time to Strategically Manage the IP Portfolio for Tech Transfer
In preparing to give a new webinar on actively managing IP portfolios, I have been thinking a lot about efficiency. Because time is always limited, you must make the most of what you have. So, today...
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