Do 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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Updated October 11, 2011 Our most recent poll asked the question: What does your TTO do with a technology once the patenting process has started: wait for the patent to issue, assess the tech’s fit in...
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Poll Shows Expert Interviews Key to Sizing Up the Market, Internet Research a...
Our latest poll asked:What is the primary way your TTO determines market interest in technologies available for licensing? Our poll results are in and as you can see from the pie chart, half of the...
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A NASA Dryden Fiber Optic Technology Makes Its Way into the Marketplace
As you might have noticed from Fuentek's news feed or on R&D Magazine's Web site, NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has signed a licensing deal with 4DSP. I for one am pretty excited about this...
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Technology and Market Issues Seem to Prevail When Marketing Goes Awry: Poll...
Two weeks ago we launched a poll asking tech transfer offices (TTOs) what tends to be the primary reason for technology marketing efforts not ending in a deal. The early results are starting to show a...
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Reaping Long-Term Rewards from Strategic IP Portfolio Screening: Stories from...
Prioritizing an intellectual property (IP) portfolio is an important, and often huge, task for tech transfer offices (TTOs). In today’s Stories from the Field post, I share details of how an efficient...
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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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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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Elaborating on OSTP Lab-to-Market Inter-Agency Summit Recommendations
This past spring, I had the pleasure of serving as a panelist at the Lab-to-Market Inter-Agency Summit convened by the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP). This past week, the...
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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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Worth Reading in Tech Transfer: External Advisory Panels, Creating Economic...
Wonder what we're reading as we wait for Congress to pass a budget? Read on. There were two articles in the September 2013 issue of Technology Transfer Tactics newsletter (available with a subscription...
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The Problem with Startup Metrics: Kicking Off the “Metrics Monday” Blog Series
Several months ago, a read an article called "Are Universities Creating Too Many Biotech Startups?" At the time I thought: The question is not how many startups should a university do, but why are they...
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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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Technology and Market Issues Seem to Prevail When Marketing Goes Awry: Poll...
Two weeks ago we launched a poll asking tech transfer offices (TTOs) what tends to be the primary reason for technology marketing efforts not ending in a deal. The early results are starting to show a...
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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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