Technology Transfer at CUBoulder

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Technology Transfer at CU-Boulder
Kate Tallman Licensing Associate
kate.tallman_at_colorado.edu
Liza Eschbach Licensing Associate liza.eschbach_at_co
lorado.edu
Mary Tapolsky Licensing Associate mary.tapolsky_at_co
lorado.edu
Annalissa Philbin Research Contracts annalissa.phi
lbin_at_cu.edu.edu
Ken Porter Director ken.porter_at_colorado.edu
www.cu.edu/techtransfer303.492.5647 4001
Discovery Drive, Stuite 390 Quest Building
Innovation
Knowledge
Technology
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TTO Serviceswww.cu.edu/techtransfer

• CDAs, MTAs
• SRAs IP terms only
• CU owns new IP
• Limited-term exclusive option to Sponsor
• Patenting/licensing
• Education
• Seminars IP, start-up (internal external)
• Interns Learning Laboratory
• Bulletins Tech Transfer How-to

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Basic Tenets of Regent Patent Policy

• www.cu.edu/techtransfer
• Presumption that University owns IP created by
  employees, or by use of CU facilities
• Narrow circumstances create a few exemptions to
  this presumption, which includes students working
  in CU courses
• Acknowledges cooperation between inventor and
  technology transfer is necessary for success
• Faculty Oversight Committee created
• Division of income stipulated 4 x 25

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IP Generated by non-FederalSponsored Research at
CU-Boulder

• Employees assign IP to CU as a condition of
  employment
• Expectation for sponsor to commercialize
  inventions
• IP conveyed to sponsor via license
• Six month option with no fee other than
  reimbursement for patent costs
• Patent claims tailored to fit sponsors
  anticipated application
• 25 of operating profit returned to CU

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Participants
TechnologyTransfer
TTO
Process
Market, Patent
Inventor
Industry
Align interests
IDF
Invention
License
Expertise Access
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The Tech Transfer ProcessInvention
Disclosurewww.cu.edu/techtransfer/campus/idf.html

• Inventors
• Technical Description
• Evidence for Patent
• www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
• Novelty, Non-obviousness, Utility
• Public Disclosure
• Sponsorship

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Invention Timeline Conception to Patent
Protection
10 3
10 5
10 4
PTO
File US Patent File PCT
Provisional Patent
PCT National Phase
Priority 12
30 Date months
months
TTO
Invention Disclosure Form (IDF)
Provisional Patent
Marketing and Patenting Licensing
Research
Observation Hypothesis Prediction
Experimentation
INVENTION
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Input
Comparison with Peers
Output
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Performance Metrics
Disclosures85 increase02-05 / 97-01
Revenue 143 increase02-05 / 96-01
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Comparison with Peers
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Summary Statistics
Yr 1
Yr 2
Yr 3
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Disclosures by Department
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Boulder Start-ups 2004
ALD NanoSolutions Steve George (Chem E) Particle
ALD, RD 100 award Al Weimer (Chem
E) AlphaSniffer Dana Anderson (Physics) Optical
nose, privately funded Victor Bright (Mech
E) Cardiac Access Roop Mahajan (Mech E) Smart
stethoscope, option converted to license KM
Labs Margaret Murnane (Physics) Amplifier for
ultrafast lasers Henry Kapteyn (Physics) Meridian
Water JoAnn Silverstein (Civil E) Biological
denitrification of water, privately
funded MRT Mark Hernandez (Civil E) Metal
removal technology, reincorporated as
Xenopure Sentry Biosciences Ding Xue (MCDB) Drug
targets for control of apoptosis
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TTO Missionwww.cu.edu/techtransfer

• Faculty service
• Support the CU research mission
• Education
• Economic development
• Internal licensing and research
• External company formation, job creation