Intellectual Property
| The main mission is to assist the faculty members to protect research outcomes, and to translate the discoveries into applications with market values. We provide an array of services to university faculty with the management of intellectual property as described below. In addition, we also assist to craft domestic and international industry-sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements and other documents with a significant IP component. |
Invention disclosure assessment |
| The invention and technology disclosure is a confidential document to fully describe the new aspects of invention, including the critical solution it provides and its advantages and benefits over current technology. |
Patentability & marketability assessment |
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Patent search and patent landscape study are conducted (either in-house or patent firms) and the market and competitive technologies are analyzed to assess the invention’s commercialization potential. The assessment processes will guide our licensing strategy to license exclusively or non-exclusively, or to license the invention indifferent fields of use. |
Intellectual property protection |
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If appropriate, necessary or warranted funding is available, patent applications will be filed domestic and/or world-wide. Then, several years and tens of thousands of dollars are required to obtain an issued patent. Other commonly used forms of intellectual property protection include copyright and trademark.Unique biological materials and software can often be successfully licensed without formal intellectual property protection. |
| Marketing and commercialization |
| We are committed to broadly marketing all technologies to appropriate companies that could be interested in commercializing the particular invention. If there are several parties interested in a license, we will endeavor to license non-exclusively or grand field-of-use licenses, if possible. |
