This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view. Click here to advertise in this news brief.   Mobile version   RSS   Subscribe   Unsubscribe   Archive   Media Kit Jan. 10, 2013 Home   Events   Careers & Training   Metrics & Data   Get Involved     Taking Directions from the Lost IP Watchdog    Share    The Brooking Institution's new report, Building an Innovation-Based Economy, draws on "two dozen innovation leaders" for its findings. But one section, "Increasing Commercialization and Technology Transfer," names no leaders to back its recommendations, perhaps with good reason. Brookings wants new regulations imposed on university and federal laboratory patent licensing, presenting theoretical problems with no supporting facts. More Call for Contributors MultiBriefs    Share    In an effort to enhance the overall content of the AUTM Newsbrief, we'd like to include peer-written articles in future editions. As a member of AUTM, your knowledge of the industry lends itself to unprecedented expertise. And we're hoping you'll share this expertise with your peers through well-written commentary. Because of the digital format, there's no word or graphical limit and our group of talented editors can help with final edits. If you're interested in participating, please contact Colby Horton to discuss logistics and payment. More Evolving Partnerships: Academia, Pharma and Venture Groups Adapt to Challenging Times Science Direct    Share    Several times a week, Markus Frank, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, meets with scientists from Pfizer, with whom he is collaborating. Their mutual goal, which joins Frank and a postdoc with Pfizer antibody engineers, toxicologists and other skilled hands, is to further develop a strategy for targeting stem cells in malignant melanoma that Frank has worked on for six years. There's no need to commute to the pharmaceutical giant's R&D facilities or connect through Skype. Face-to-face meetings can even happen spur-of-the-moment, since Pfizer's Boston-based Center for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) is directly across Longwood Avenue from Frank's lab. More ATCC Master Deposit Agreement ATCC serves researchers by characterizing, preserving and distributing biomaterials to the research community. We invite you, our colleagues in the technology transfer and research communities, to partner with us through a master deposit agreement for worldwide distribution of your novel cell lines,bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa. AUTM Booth # 401 more How to Use University Partnerships to Augment Innovation Financial Post    Share    Companies increasingly recognize that to innovate successfully they cannot exclusively rely on their internal R&D. Working with external partners allows them to access different pools of knowledge and save R&D costs. Universities are among the external partners that offer high promise, since they allow access to an enormous global pool of talent and skills. More Safer Tubes for ICU Patients among New Inventions by Wake Forest Innovations Winston-Salem Journal    Share    Products providing more comfort to patients in awkward examination and intensive-care settings are some of the first fruits coming out of the Wake Forest Innovations initiative. Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center launched the division in December as part of enhancing the commercializing of its academic and clinical research to bolster revenue streams and establish new ones. One prototype involves a device that allows for an easier exchange of an endotracheal tube for intensive-care unit patients. More Startup Success Eckman Basu LLP helps university/startups achieve value goals. With an extraordinary level of technical expertise, we understand your inventions and how to make them successful with patents and IP. --Our experience matters! MORE Oregon Looks to Tech Transfer to Boost Economy The Register-Guard    Share    Oregon business and university leaders presented an outline of their plan to help spur economic and job growth through creation of a South Willamette Valley Technology Business Accelerator. The "accelerator," a joint project of the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, would be dedicated to hastening the process of taking innovations from university laboratories out to the marketplace. More Plastic Logic Proposes a Futuristic Kind of Paper TIME    Share    For all the guilt-tripping about dead trees, we still can't live without paper. But some day, we may be able to use flexible sheets of digital ink instead. At the Consumer Electronics Show, U.K.-based Plastic Logic demonstrated an E-Ink "tablet" dubbed the PaperTab, which was little more than a thick, floppy sheet of plastic, connected to a high-end Core processor from Intel. Each of these sheets can accept touch input and can share data when in contact with one another. More NAI Conference Feb. 21-22, 2013 Register now for the 2nd Annual Conference of the National Academy of Inventors, Feb. 21-22 in Tampa, Florida. Keynotes by USPTO Commissioner for Patents Margaret Focarino and National Medal of Technology & Innovation winner Robert Langer of MIT. Induction of the 100 NAI Charter Fellows. Register and read more Register Now for AUTM's 2013 Annual Meeting AUTM    Share    If you haven't done so already, it's time to register for the AUTM 2013 Annual Meeting. Need to register by mail or fax? Download an application here. View the schedule NEW! Download a detailed program Read about add-on courses Highlights & networking Download the exhibitor prospectus and contract. Download the sponsorship brochure and contract. AUTM Offers Online Course on Standard Operating Procedures AUTM    Share    Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are valuable tools that provide structure and consistency to everyday processes. This online session will provide the big-picture view of SOPs and then move down to a more detailed level by providing example SOPs and tips on how to get started with your own SOPs. Topics will include general administrative filing, invention disclosure processing, sponsor notification, patent processing, license agreements and more. Jan. 29, noon-1:30 p.m. EST. Learn more. Register online now. INDUS TechInnovations INDUS TechInnovations is a technology company developing innovative products based on knowledge discovery. We provide software solutions to mine knowledge from relevant data. MORE Advertise here! To find out how to feature your company in the AUTM eNewsletter and other advertising opportunities, Contact James DeBois at 469-420-2618. MORE Read More in 2013! AUTM    Share    Want to boost your knowledge of the technology transfer field or just expand your personal library? Now you can do both while supporting AUTM. Through their partnership with the independent bookseller, Powell's Books, AUTM will receive a portion of all sales through the AUTM Bookshelf page at Powell's. New technology transfer titles have just been added, but anything you purchase from Powell's through the link above helps AUTM. There is no additional cost to you. It's that simple! AUTM's Better World Report Seeks Technologies AUTM    Share    Do you have a licensed technology that is helping make the world a better place? If so, AUTM wants to hear about it. The Better World Report — which celebrates real-world examples of how academic research benefits humankind — is seeking story ideas for 2013. Every month, two fresh stories are featured in a Web-based format. You can be a part of this exciting publication by submitting your story ideas. Download the application and submit it at any time. Story ideas are reviewed on a quarterly basis. The first deadline is Feb. 15. Questions? Contact Managing Editor Lisa Richter at lrichter@autm.net. Columbia Awarded $5 Million NYSERDA Clean Energy Commercialization Grant (Columbia University) UT Austin Names Director for Commercialization Efforts (University of Texas)   AUTM Newsbrief Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469.420.2601 Download media kit Sam Morton, Content Editor, 469.420.2638   Contribute news This edition of the AUTM Newsbrief was sent to ##Email##. To unsubscribe, click here. Did someone forward this edition to you? Subscribe here -- it's free! Recent issues Jan. 3, 2013 End of Year: Dec. 27, 2012 Dec. 20, 2012 Dec. 13, 2012 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063