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As 2017 comes to a close, AUTM would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of AUTM Newsbrief a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 4.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From June 15: Filled with anecdotes of inventorship disputes and resolutions, this session will review the inventorship determination principles. Hear recommendations and guidelines regarding lab dynamics involving principal investigators, post docs, graduate students and technicians. Additionally, guidance regarding collaborations between academic institutions will be addressed.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From Nov. 30: When the present Office of Technology Transfer needs an overhaul, several key issues need to be addressed, including determining shortcomings of the previous office administrators to understanding the goals of the upper administration. Once, those are assessed, formulating and executing a strategy is highly dependent on understanding the assets at your disposal and getting your staff buy into your vision. The amount of work that needs to go into transforming a technology transfer office while trying to keep up with the normal course of business is comparable to drinking from a fire hose. Keeping your sanity and your staff from jumping ship can be a tall order when you are in the middle of executing your turnaround strategy.
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TechInsurance, an Insureon brand.
Many clients don’t understand the nuances of the technology they use, and that knowledge gap is where Errors and Omissions risk blooms. If clients have unrealistic expectations, it can lead to frustration and lawsuits.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From Aug. 3:This mini-course answers creative works commercialization questions. From disclosures to license management, this course dives into the strategies, models, methods and tools to bring creative works to commercial life.
For the past seven years, we've focused on building our creative works portfolio, and we'll share our successes, our failures, and our key learnings from our work during that period. Whether you're from a large office with deep resources, or a small one with only a limited budget, a vibrant creative works program can improve your technology transfer office's relations across all departments, increase your disclosure counts, and generate new revenue within a short time frame. After this course, you'll leave with the confidence, resources and knowledge to jump-start your creative works activities.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From June 29: You have just received new invention disclosures regarding a new use for an old drug and a new platform technology for methods of detecting a disease. Although these technologies appear to present reasonable licensing opportunities, you need to determine if that is really the case. In this session, we will answer all your questions, from a university perspective, regarding the ability to license and to enforce patents directed to such new methods of use.
Find out the value of a university drug repurposing patent to the original drug-maker and the value of a university method of use patent to a diagnostic company. Recognize under what circumstances a drug-maker would be interested in licensing such repurposing rights. Learn what role product patent term, labeling for U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) versus off-label use, and generic competition play in making your new method of use claims attractive for licensing. Our panelists will discuss the obstacles for enforcing these types of patents and whether or not those challenges undermine the value in pursuing such patents.
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IPWatchdog
From Nov. 22: A few months ago, a judge ordered Apple to pay the University of Wisconsin $506 million for infringing one of its tech patents. Last year, Carnegie-Mellon University won $750 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against Marvell Technology Group. With such big-money patent cases in the news, you might think that owning a patent can create a major windfall of profit for universities. While this has proven true for a handful of institutions, the truth is that most universities actually make little or no money from licensing the inventions they produce.
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IPWatchdog
From Oct. 26: Gene Quinn, a patent attorney and editor and founder of IPWatchdog.com, writes: "Whenever I speak with inventors, I am inevitably asked about the benefit of filing a provisional patent application. I am a fan of provisional applications and do encourage independent inventors and small businesses to start with a provisional patent application. There is no downside to a provisional patent application, only benefits, provided the application filed actually (and adequately) describes the invention. Notwithstanding, it is critically important to understand what a provisional patent application is, and perhaps most importantly what a provisional patent application is not. And first things first: There is no such thing as a provisional patent."
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Universities devote significant resources to research and development, but often struggle to generate meaningful revenue from their intellectual property – revenue that could be used to advance their mission. Longford Capital provides financial assistance to universities to help them realize the full value of their intellectual property, without burdening their budgets.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From July 27: Combining design and text to present complex ideas and data, infographics provide a compelling way to tell a technology transfer story. Displaying information visually often conveys the message more clearly and with greater impact than words alone or standard data-driven charts. In the field of technology transfer, infographics can be used to demonstrate office performance metrics, explain internal processes, develop and articulate management goals or advocate for increased support.
Using plenty of examples, the panelists will discuss their development process, share tips and tricks and reveal lessons learned. Consider the key components which make infographics relevant and gain valuable insight into efficiently creating and effectively using infographics to achieve essential communication goals.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From July 20: During the Fireside Chat of the AUTM 2015 Annual Meeting, serial entrepreneur Steve Blank discussed the relevance of the lean startup methodology to technology transfer. These principles have been applied successfully at several universities.
While recognizing that going lean is not a one-size-fits-all proposition, this session provides a fresh perspective on standard technology transfer processes. Hear how lean startup principles such as The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop, The Minimum Viable Product and the Business Model/Value Proposition Canvases have worked for specific technology transfer offices. Join this interactive session to gain useful tools and develop a critical eye to help you go lean.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From May 4: Invention reporting is a very easy and straightforward process. Except when it isn't. Mistakes happen. Anomalies occur. Exceptions seem to prove the rules at every turn. Before you know it, invention reporting has become a complicated mess and you have hundreds of messages from iEdison. Never fear! We've all been there. This light-hearted session will address a serious topic — what do you do when invention reporting goes bad. Join seasoned invention reporters as they share stories of their misadventures, solutions to invention reporting gone awry and how to keep a sense of humor when all seems lost. Bring your own stories and hear how the experts respond.
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AUTM 2017 Annual Meeting Recording
From Nov. 2: While the country's best and brightest university researchers are creating new technologies and innovations every day, delivering that research to society is not always seamless. Technology transfer can be a complicated process especially with the variations of law, policy and taxes that exist across a state or region. This expert panel will focus on the legislative and academic partnership, specifically how lawmakers can aid critical aspects of technology transfer via the creation of policies and initiatives.
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