http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content The monthly advisor on best practices in tech transfer Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:12:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Erie, PA-based Full Circle Investments LLC (FCI) is raising a $30 million commercialization fund that will invest in young companies and technologies developed at a handful of research institutions, including Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh. A typical investment will range between $1 million and $2 million, ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/full-circle-investments-plans-30m-fund/ Arizona State University's (ASU) technology transfer arm is partnering with Japan Technology Group (JTG) to collaborate on commercializing technologies from ASU and eight Japanese universities. Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE) will market Japanese IP in the United States, while JTG will do the same for ASU in Japan. The goal is ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/arizona-technology-enterprises-partners-with-japan-technology-group/ There’s less than a week left to register for Tech Transfer Marketing on a Shoestring: Guerilla Tactics in a Budget-Cut ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/don%e2%80%99t-miss-next-week%e2%80%99s-audioconference-tech-transfer-marketing-on-a-shoestring/ Select investors who provide capital for startups will have access to a program that provides a first look at companies commercializing technologies developed at Purdue University. The Purdue Research Foundation has established the P3 Alliance - Purdue, People, Performance - as an angel investment network that provides investment information and ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/purdue-research-foundation-establishes-network-for-angel-investors/ The federal government can stimulate the creation of jobs and businesses by streamlining its policies for bringing new technologies to market, according to a report from the Association of University Research Parks (AURP). The report by Brian Darmody, president of the AURP and associate vice president for research and economic ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/aurp-report-streamline-federal-tech-transfer-to-create-jobs/ Some of the U.S. Army's top science and technology leaders are changing how they think and act so they can transfer new technology solutions to soldiers more quickly. "A solider's life is far more complex than when I was a young infantryman," says Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, commander of the ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/us-army-looks-to-speed-up-tech-transfer/ A new software tool, the Competitive Advantage Valuation (CAV) system, was specifically developed to provide the precision you need in IP valuation at a price every organization can afford. ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/affordable-ip-valuation-software-for-ttos/ Rhapsody Biologics (S) Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based startup launched in October 2009 using IP exclusively licensed from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), has licensed from Exploit Technologies - A*STAR's marketing and commercialization arm - a portfolio of technologies to create a personalized peptide vaccine (PPV) platform. The ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/rhapsody-biologics-licenses-technology-to-create-personalized-peptide-vaccine/ A spinoff developed by New York's Roswell Park Cancer Institute and the University at Buffalo (UB) is working to train surgeons around the world in robotic surgery using technology that simulates the touch and feel of a robotic surgical system. The Robotic Surgical Simulator (RoSS) was developed over a four-year ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/roswell-park-u-buffalo-take-robotics-around-globe/ Scientists at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman are exploring the use of nanomaterials to fight influenza and other viral respiratory infections. If their technology works in humans the way it does in mice, people will prepare for a respiratory viral assault by inhaling an aerosol spray containing tiny protein ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/montana-state-team-developing-new-way-to-fight-influenza/ A mining researcher at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) is leading an effort to reduce the huge amounts of dust created by the large machines miners use to chew coal from the veins beneath the ground. Yoginder "Paul" Chugh, PhD, professor in the department of mining and mineral resources in ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/water-spray-system-reduces-dust-in-coal-mines/ Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the TTO of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has introduced a method for tracking, recording, and analyzing human traffic patterns for tourism, town planning, and health care applications. Noam Shoval and Michal Isaacson, researchers in Hebrew-U's department of geography, developed the technology. Human behavior depends ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/yissum-introduces-system-to-track-analyze-human-spatial-behavior/ 2Market Information Inc., publisher of Tech Transfer E-News, is pleased to welcome a new partner, JIAN Inc., and offer an incredibly ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/software-makes-creating-business-plans-a-snap/ The University of New Mexico's (UNM) Science and Technology Corp. (STC) has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against Albuquerque-based Environmental Robots Inc. (ERI) charging patent infringement. STC claims that ERI - which manufactures and sells robotics technology worldwide - has infringed on ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/03/03/u-new-mexico-files-patent-complaint-against-environmental-robots/ During fiscal year 2008, 595 companies were formed as a result of U.S. university research, according to the AUTM U.S. Licensing Activity Survey: FY2008, released by the Association of University Technology Managers in Deerfield, IL. Nearly three-fourths (72%) of these companies had their primary place of business in the university's ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/autm-licensing-surveys-reveal-steady-growth-in-us-canadian-commercialization/ AUTM's U.S. Licensing Activity Survey: FY2008 brought especially good news for the University of Utah, which now leads the nation in spinning off companies such as Catheter Connections -- one of 20 Utah spinoffs during 2008. A few years ago, nurses Michael Howlett and James Mercer began patenting concepts for ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/u-utah-tops-list-for-launching-businesses/ AUTM has taken a very public stand against the Kauffman Foundation's missive against U.S. TTOs in the Harvard Business Review. (See this article.) In an editorial published in Business Week, AUTM President Arundeep S. Pradhan, associate vice president for technology transfer and business development at Oregon Health & Science University ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/autm-president-defends-the-university-tech-transfer-system/ Dramatic increases in spinout activity at Ireland's universities also seem to refute the Kauffman Foundation's contention that TTOs are holding back university research. According to figures from TTOs at Ireland's third-level institutes, 35 spinouts were formed in 2009 across the country's 10 major institutes, up from an average of 10 ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/irish-universities-see-dramatic-increase-in-tto-spinouts/ In partnership with Business Valuation Resources, 2Market Information Inc., parent company of Tech Transfer E-News, is offering the just-published Guide ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/definitive-guide-to-irc-409a-valuations-released/ Scotland's Aberdeen University has launched the spinout Sight Science Ltd to commercialize its Neuro-Eye Therapy (NeET), a technology that has been likened to physiotherapy for the eyes. Partial sight loss following stroke affects some 55,000 people across Europe each year. Thousands more suffer vision loss following a brain injury. Delivered ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/aberdeen-university-spins-out-sight-science/ The laboratory work of Doris Taylor, PhD, the Medtronic-Bakken chair in cardiac repair and director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Cardiovascular Repair, has moved closer to commercial reality following the execution of an exclusive license agreement between the university and Taylor's start-up company, Miromatrix Medical, Inc. The technology ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/u-minnesota-inks-licensing-deal-receives-gift-of-royalty-bearing-patents/ Writing on the ATPBlog, ATPBio principal David Grainger, PhD, director of Graingerlab -- an inflammation research and therapy lab in the department of medicine at Cambridge University -- and senior partner at the life sciences boutique investment group Total Medical Ventures, recalls meeting in the mid-1990s with a VC partner ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/a-penny-for-your-thoughts-%e2%80%93-how-much-value-does-an-idea-have-today/ The U.S. Supreme Court’s highly anticipated ruling in the Bilski case has the potential to alter the landscape for business ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/the-bilski-decision-expert-strategies-to-manage-its-impact-on-university-ip/ The University of California, San Francisco has signed a partnership agreement with Genentech, Inc. to discover and develop drug candidates for neurodegenerative diseases. Genentech will support the work of several researchers at the UCSF Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC), which is administered by the UCSF School of Pharmacy and located ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/ucsf-inks-drug-discovery-agreement-with-genentech/ RTI International, based in Research Triangle Park, NC, has developed a lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and doesn't contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb. The technology centers on advancements in the nanoscale properties of materials ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/researchers-develop-nanotechnology-for-energy-efficient-lighting/ A research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Panos Datskos is developing a chemical and biological sensor with unprecedented sensitivity. Ultimately, researchers believe this new "sniffer" will achieve a detection level that approaches the theoretical limit for detecting explosives, biological agents, and narcotics. The device consists of a digital ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/sensor-exploits-traditional-weakness-of-nano-devices/ The regular "Your Business" column in London's Telegraph has begun tracking the progress of 50 promising university spinouts to show the breadth of cutting-edge technology emerging from Britain's universities. You can bookmark the column and track the financial progress of these spinouts yourself at Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/24/telegraph-begins-tracking-uk%e2%80%99s-top-university-spinouts/ It was the shot heard round the tech transfer world; in fact, it was interpreted by many tech transfer professionals as a shot across the bow, if not a full-force slap in the face. In a brief one-page treatise in the January/February edition of the Harvard Business Review that the ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/kauffman-proposal-for-%e2%80%98free-agent%e2%80%99-faculty-draws-strong-reaction-from-tto-execs/ In November 2009, pharma giant Pfizer revealed it would lay off 600 of its 1,000 employees in St. Louis, MO, as part of a 15% reduction in its global work force following the $68 billion acquisition of drug maker Wyeth. But Pfizer's loss is St. Louis University's gain. SLU plans ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/st-louis-u-to-snap-up-pfizer-scientists/ Rob Duncan, vice chancellor for research at the University of Missouri, is challenging students to create their own careers after college instead of struggling in a slow job market, and he wants faculty members and local entrepreneurs to help. Duncan has created the Club Innovation for Missouri Business, or CLIMB, ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/u-missouri-student-entrepreneurs-to-get-boost-from-club/ Through a new partnership with Life Science Analytics, 2Market Information Inc. is offering access to specialized drug pipeline reports that ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/therapy-specific-drug-pipeline-reports-available/ Exploit Technologies, the marketing and commercialization arm of the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), has licensed a computer network traffic recognition engine developed by A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) to start-up Niometrics Pte Ltd. The licensed technology, dubbed CUB4, is a high-performance, software-based traffic analysis engine. ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/singapore-start-up-licenses-high-performance-network-traffic-analysis-engine/ Johns Hopkins University has inked an exclusive global license allowing DxS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Netherlands holding company Qiagen N.V., to use its PI3K biomarker patent in the development of PCR-based companion diagnostics for cancer therapies. The patent for PI3K mutations in human cancers was initially filed by Johns ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/johns-hopkins-inks-license-with-dxs-for-cancer-biomarker-patent/ Fusion IP plc, the commercialization specialist for the U.K.'s Cardiff University, has spun out Progenteq Ltd to develop a cartilage replacement therapy for the treatment of acute knee injuries. The company is founded on the work of Charlie Archer, PhD, professor of reparative biology and tissue engineering in the connective ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/fusion-ip-spins-progenteq-out-of-cardiff-university/ Two of Central Ohio's largest economic engines are collaborating on a technology initiative that could pay dividends for both. Columbus-based R&D giant Battelle has signed a two-year deal to use the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business to assess the market potential of ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/battelle-osu-extend-tech-commercialization-effort/ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in LaJolla, CA, have signed a license agreement with Genentech, a wholly owned member of the Roche group, and Roche that grants the companies exclusive rights to manufacture, develop, and market human monoclonal antibodies to treat and protect against ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/dana-farber-sanford-burnham-institute-license-flu-targeting-antibodies/ Three outstanding distance learning events filled with practical strategies and how-to guidance on are coming soon, starting with next week’s ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/distance-learning-events-for-ip-and-tech-transfer-professionals/ NovaUCD, the TTO responsible for the commercialization of IP developed at Ireland's University College Dublin (UCD), reported 85 invention disclosures in 2009 -- a 60% increase over the 53 inventions reported in 2008. In addition, seven companies were spun out of UCD in 2009, including: Aremon, established to provide validation of ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/novaucd-reports-seven-spinoffs-in-2009/ AIDS Research Alliance in Los Angeles has signed a licensing agreement with Stanford University for exclusive rights to a technology developed by chemistry professor Paul Wender, PhD, and colleagues. The technology, reported in 2008 in Science, will allow AIDS researchers to synthesize the natural compound prostratin. Early tests conducted at ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/aids-research-alliance-gains-exclusive-rights-to-stanford-technology/ Scientists at the University of Oxford, U.K., have developed a method to capture a high-resolution still image alongside high-speed video. By combining off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors, the researchers have created a tool that could transform many forms of detailed scientific imaging and provide access ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/heart-researchers-create-novel-photographic-technique/ The following is a list of the articles that appear in the February 2010 issue of Technology Transfer Tactics monthly newsletter. If you are already a current subscriber click here to log in and access your issue. Not a subscriber already? Subscribe now and get access to this issue ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/17/technology-transfer-tactics-february-2010-issue/ The Position: The University of Virginia invites nominations and applications for the Associate Dean for Development (ADD) of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. The ADD will direct all annual, capital, and special fundraising activities for the School. The ADD will be responsible for initiating and expanding relations with ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/16/associate-dean-for-development/ EMD Chemicals Inc.represents the North American extension of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, for specialty chemicals. Description This position is responsible for developing and managing the technology development strategy for EMD Bioscience business in concert with and under the direction of the Director of Business Development and Licensing. This position is responsible for ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/12/business-technology-development-manager-1000158/ In a press conference on February 4, the Washington, DC-based Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) expressed concern about recommendations in the report "Gene Patents and Licensing Practices and Their Impact on Patient Access to Genetic Tests," issued by the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society (SACGHS). The committee is ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/bio-comes-out-swinging-against-sacghs-report-on-gene-patents/ In an editorial for cnn.com, Krisztina "Z" Holly, vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California and executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, argues that the White House should use technology transfer to help solve the U.S. jobs crisis. "Currently, the federal government is investing ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/for-jobs-white-house-should-look-to-university-spinoffs/ In association with IPRA Inc. and its principal, royalty rate and valuation expert Russell Parr, 2Market Information Inc. recently added ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/two-new-royalty-rate-references-focus-on-medical-devices-trademarks-and-copyrights/ The University of Minnesota is teaming up with private developers to establish a venture-backed commercialization hub adjacent to the school's Biomedical Discovery District. Construction could begin next year on The Minnesota Center for Life Science Technology Commercialization, a 60,000-square-foot building designed to convert ideas and technology from university biomedical researchers ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/u-minnesota-developers-plan-20m-venture-fund-to-anchor-science-park/ Like its cross-border rival, the University of Wisconsin-Madison also has a public/private research center under construction in the heart of its campus. When it opens in December, the $205 million Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery will allow a diverse group of researchers from the UW-Madison campus and beyond to mix with ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/u-wisconsin-also-putting-private-public-research-under-one-roof/ From biofuels to pharmaceuticals, Sacramento-area inventors have created scores of promising scientific breakthroughs -- many of them in the well-funded laboratories of the University of California, Davis. Now, UC Davis is laboring to convert its massive portfolio of scientific research into products that could help transform the Sacramento economy. The ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/uc-davis-aims-to-jump-start-its-tech-transfer-efforts/ The University Funds, LLC, a VC based in Bellevue, WA, has expanded eastward, inking an agreement with Indiana University Research & Technology Corp. (IURTC) to move IP created by researchers at IU into the marketplace. The University Funds was launched in May 2009 to combine the entrepreneurial expertise and management ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/the-university-funds-expands-east-to-indiana-u/ The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has opened on-campus technology incubator space at the California NanoSystems Institute to WaveConnex, Inc., a start-up that plans to conduct proof-of-concept research on contactless electronic connections that can be used in virtually all electronic systems. WaveConnex, incorporated in August 2009, is leveraging research ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/start-up-joins-ucla-tech-incubator-to-develop-contactless-electronic-connections/ Rave reviews are coming in from IP and tech transfer professionals who attended one of our most popular distance learning events of ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/get-patent-prosecution-costs-under-control/ NioCAD, a spinout from South Africa's Stellenbosch University, has secured R12.5 million ($1.7M) in second-round funding from South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) to commercialize its first product, expected to launch in February. NioCAD has developed an end-to-end design automation tool for building superconductive integrated circuits. As current processor and ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/stellenbosch-u-spinout-developing-superconductive-integrated-circuit-design-tool/ Emission & Power Solutions, Plc (EPS), a clean tech company based in the U.K. that licenses, acquires, develops, deploys, and transfers technologies to improve fuel economy while reducing exhaust emissions, has licensed a patent-pending vapor emissions system developed at The University of Alabama. The company is launching an R&D collaboration ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/british-clean-tech-firm-licenses-u-alabama-technology/ Power-generating rubber films developed by Princeton University engineers could harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power pacemakers, mobile phones, and other electronic devices. The material, composed of ceramic nanoribbons embedded onto silicone rubber sheets, generates electricity when flexed and is highly efficient at converting mechanical energy ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/10/princeton%e2%80%99s-energy-harvesting-rubber-sheets-could-power-pacemakers-mobile-phones/ The University of Missouri System plans to establish a three-year, $5-million fund for start-up companies. The Enterprise Investment Program "is designed to help fund start-up companies in Missouri that can move the discoveries of our faculty from the laboratory to the marketplace," leveraging the university's expertise in life sciences, nanotechnology, ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/university-of-missouri-to-launch-5m-business-fund/ The U.S. Supreme Court’s highly anticipated ruling in the Bilski case has the potential to alter the landscape for business ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/assess-bilski-case%e2%80%99s-impact-on-your-portfolio-and-take-steps-now-to-protect-your-ip/ The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, is launching a training camp to teach promising young Canadian entrepreneurs how to help create the country's future economy. The VeloCity Entrepreneur BootCamp (VEB), which will run from May to July 2010, will be based in U-Waterloo's VeloCity, a hybrid student residence and ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/u-waterloo-launches-bootcamp-for-young-entrepreneurs/ The University of Rochester (NY) is taking a different approach to enlist students in commercializing promising technology. The school has created a graduate program designed to put its vast collection of IP to use in medical devices, consumer electronics, and other applications instead of leaving patents to collect dust. As ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/degree-program-trains-students-to-turn-u-of-rochester-patents-into-products/ Imperial Innovations Group plc, the tech transfer arm of Imperial College London, has granted Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics a worldwide, exclusive license to a preclinical-stage vaccine candidate against meningitis B. Although full terms of the deal were not disclosed, Imperial Innovations received an upfront payment and will be entitled to ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/imperial-innovations-inks-meningitis-vaccine-licensing-deal-with-novartis/ A company developing potential treatments to help heal damaged hearts and muscle wounds has exclusively licensed patents that will help move the protein therapy closer to actual patients. In 2008, NellOne Therapeutics was spun out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) contractor UT-Battelle by Battelle Ventures to probe the potential ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/ut-battelle-licenses-tissue-regeneration-technologies-to-nellone-therapeutics/ A new software tool, the Competitive Advantage Valuation (CAV) system, was specifically developed to provide the precision you need in IP valuation at a price every organization can afford. ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/save-time-and-money-using-in-house-valuation-analysis-software/ A Sioux Falls company is using patent-pending technology developed by researchers at the University of South Dakota to create a specialty sock line with germ-killing additives designed to help diabetics and athletes. Yuyu Sun, PhD, associate professor in biomedical engineering at USD, has spent the past 11 years conducting research ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/u-south-dakota-researcher%e2%80%99s-germ-killing-socks-go-into-production/ Having low vision can seriously limit life for individuals with macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, and diabetic retinopathy. Low-tech vision aids such as hand-held magnifiers, stand magnifiers, reading telescopes, spectacle-mounted magnifying lenses, and bright reading lamps often are recommended, but each of these devices has drawbacks, says Jeffrey Sonsino, OD, an ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/vanderbilt-researcher-develops-new-glasses-for-low-vision/ Having a wide range of services and resources available to faculty entrepreneurs and investors has always been seen as an important goal by the TTO at The University of Michigan, but recently its leadership decided that those services could be provided more effectively and efficiently by creating a central contact ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/umich-creates-%e2%80%98one-stop-shop%e2%80%99-center-for-start-ups/ Columbia University and Ascent Scientific have signed a license agreement for FFN511, a fluorescent probe for optical imaging and measurement of synaptic activity in the brain. Memory, decision-making, and learning require activation and modification of synapses in the brain. This synaptic transmission involves the accumulation of neurotransmitters in vesicles within ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/columbia-licenses-high-resolution-brain-imaging-technology/ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has inked a license agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for patented technology covering the use of deuterium in semiconductor devices. The IP provides a solution to hot-carrier effects, which are known to cause problems with device reliability. The agreement allows Samsung to use ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/uiuc-inks-license-with-samsung-to-improve-semiconductor-performance/ Microsoft Corp., McAfee Inc., and Symantec Corp. have joined the Defensive Patent Aggregation service offered by San Francisco-based RPX Corp. The moves bring RPX's membership to 29, including Sharp Corporation and the U.S. subsidiary of Swedish telecommunications software and services company Enea. "Patents have long been viewed as a transactional ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/02/03/software-industry-leaders-join-rpx-defensive-patent-aggregation-service/ The JHU/APL seeks a senior-level, highly motivated professional to join the APL Office of Technology transfer (OTT) team. The successful candidate will work with the Technology Transfer Director and with the other Technology Management staff to manage and license a portfolio of Information Technology inventions and lead APL activities ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/28/technology-commercialization-manager-%e2%80%93-johns-hopkins-university/ Writing in Xconomy San Diego, CONNECT CEO Duane J. Roth describes a new funding model for innovation. The Distributed Partnering Model, which Roth co-developed with Pedro Cuatrecasas, former president of pharmaceutical research for Parke Davis Warner Lambert Co. and adjunct professor of pharmacology and medicine at the University of California ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/proposed-%e2%80%98distributed-partnering%e2%80%99-model-addresses-the-innovation-valley-of-death/ In association with IPRA Inc. and its principal, royalty rate and valuation expert Russell Parr, 2Market Information Inc. has created ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/royalty-rates-for-technology-medical-devices-and-diagnostics-edition-now-available/ The overhaul of the University of Washington's tech transfer department continues under the leadership of vice provost Linden Rhoads, and the latest move is about branding. The department -- which manages and licenses technology from the state's largest public university -- has changed its name to The University of Washington ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/u-washington-tto-changes-name-adds-heavy-hitters-to-team/ The University of Rochester (NY) also is stretching its commercialization efforts by making a key staffing change. U-Rochester has created a new position -- vice-provost for technology transfer policy -- as part of a multi-year effort to increase the number of science and engineering discoveries that can be developed by ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/u-rochester-expands-staff-to-speed-commercialization/ A University of Delaware technology that could change the energy world is on a roll. The university has signed the first license for its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with AutoPort, Inc., a vehicle processing and modification facility in New Castle, DE. Under terms of the licensing agreement, AutoPort has been granted ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/autoport-to-roll-out-first-cars-equipped-with-u-delaware-technology/ Julie Olson, PhD, wants to help your refrigerator. An associate professor of biological sciences, Olson is working with the University of Alabama's OTT to bring to market a naturally occurring but previously unknown compound that could assist in food preservation. Although refrigeration slows the growth of many bacterial and fungal ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/u-of-alabama-scientist-on-the-trail-of-a-new-food-preservative/ TTOs say they are facing a hard truth when it comes to early-stage financing: Projects that would have been considered "venture ready" a few short years ago are having a much tougher time attracting VC funding today. "The definition of the term ‘venture ready' is definitely different than it was ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/ttos-face-new-reality-when-seeking-venture-funding/ GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has inked an exclusive over-the-counter license agreement covering the United States and Canada for a nanoemulsion treatment for cold sores developed by Ann Arbor, MI-based NanoBio Corporation. James R. Baker, Jr., MD, director of the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences at the University of Michigan ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/glaxosmithkline-moves-u-michigan-compound-forward-partners-with-emory/ Two upcoming distance learning events will offer a wealth of best practices for IP marketers and tech transfer professionals: Performing Market Research Studies: Testing the Waters ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/audioconferences-to-offer-ip-marketing-best-practices/ A device that gently rocks embryos while they grow during in vitro fertilization (IVF) improves pregnancy rates in mice by 22%, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. The device could one day lead to significantly higher IVF success rates in humans as well. Researchers built the device to ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/u-mich-develops-new-device-to-improve-in-vitro-pregnancy-rates/ Miromatrix, Inc. has one official employee, zero money, and nothing to develop -- yet. But make no mistake: everyone wants a piece of it, and Minnesota officials hope the fledgling company will regenerate the state's medical industry. Miromatrix is close to signing a license agreement with the University of Minnesota ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/27/u-minn-spinout-seeks-to-%e2%80%98regenerate%e2%80%99-state%e2%80%99s-medical-industry/ In an article posted on their law firm's web site, patent attorneys Stephen D. Harper, PhD, and Stephen J. Weed in the Valley Forge, PA, office of RatnerPrestia consider the U.S. Supreme Court's current deliberation of the Federal Circuit's decision on business methods in In re Bilski and possible patent ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/attorneys-offer-advice-on-bilski-with-a-side-of-mayo/ Wilfred Konneker attended Ohio University in the 1940s and was an early pioneer in nuclear physics before founding several companies and becoming one of the university's financial benefactors. He's come through again -- big time. Diagnostic Hybrids, a company Konneker helped found in 1983 with two OU professors and the ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/ohio-university-makes-a-bundle-on-sale-of-company/ Through a new partnership with ktMINE, 2Market Information, parent company of Tech Transfer E-News, is offering hands-on access to an ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/web-based-benchmarking-tool-offers-searchable-access-to-more-than-6000-license-agreements/ Roswell Park Cancer Institute's (RPCI) TTO has signed a licensing agreement with Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., for tumor imaging technology developed by RPCI researcher Ravindra Pandey, PhD. Zhejiang Hisun Pharmaceutical is one of China's largest producers of oncology drugs. Additional terms were not disclosed, but Richard Matner, PhD, MBA, ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/roswell-park-licenses-tumor-imaging-tech-to-chinese-pharma/ In another sign of China's emergence as a hot market for technology partnerships, a biotech company launched through the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) has signed a multi-million pound deal to sell its products in China. Burdica Biomed, a Fife-based firm that develops personal lubricant products, has reached a partnership agreement ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/u-edinburgh-start-up-signs-major-chinese-deal/ The University of Utah pumps millions of dollars and thousands of jobs into the Utah economy, according to a new study. "The Economic Impact of Sponsored Research at the University of Utah" clearly illustrates the financial impact of research spending, which is increasingly important to TTOs as their missions become ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/u-utah-research-dollars-provide-double-impact-on-state%e2%80%99s-economy/ Germany's Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen and University of Regensburg have inked exclusive licenses with the U.K.'s Medical Research Council Technology (MRCT) to develop a therapy for inflammatory and immune diseases based on the depletion of inflammatory monocytes. The first targets will be rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and multiple sclerosis (MS). MBM ScienceBridge GmbH, ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/multi-tto-collaboration-leads-to-license-agreement-for-new-therapy/ Our Distance Learning Division has lined up four practical audioconference events over the coming weeks, each one filled with real-world strategies ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/four-distance-learning-events-on-tap-for-ip-and-tech-transfer-professionals/ A runner-up at Ireland's 2009 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition has evolved into a web-based company that is a corporate exhibitor at this year's show. The Sound of Silence project, developed by students and a physics professor at Ursuline College Sligo, investigated a therapy for people suffering from temporary ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/start-up-that-restores-hearing-achieves-sound-success/ Although most university TTOs acknowledge their mission of advancing academic research to benefit society and ensuring public access to university innovations, there is currently no effective measure of licensing success that gauges this central aspect of research effectiveness. The Access Metrics Initiative, developed by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/20/access-metrics-initiative-invites-tto-participation/ The following is a list of the articles that appear in the January 2010 issue of Technology Transfer Tactics monthly newsletter. If you are already a current subscriber click here to log in and access your issue. Not a subscriber already? Subscribe now and get access to this issue ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/19/technology-transfer-tactics-january-2010-issue/ Angel investors fund more companies than any other source of capital for start-up ventures -- except for entrepreneurs themselves, their friends, and their families. Not surprisingly, angels tend to invest in new ventures in business sectors they understand, says Bill Payne, the 2010 Bank of New Zealand University of Auckland ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/start-ups-follow-these-tips-to-speak-%e2%80%98the-language-of-the-angels%e2%80%99/ The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) has won an appeal in federal court against Canadian drug company Xenon in a case clarifying that co-ownership of patents is controlled by contracts, when they exist. The lawsuit brought by WARF dealt with Xenon’s handling of patent rights to an enzyme that can ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/warf-wins-appeal-in-patent-battle-with-xenon/ Find out how to meet and exceed corporate expectations and de-risk your IP for a faster, smoother and more lucrative deal by attending ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/shrink-wrap-your-universitys-technologies-to-attract-licensees/ Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) and the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) have developed MPEG4-SLS (scalable-to-lossless coding), the world's first adaptive audio streaming technology using the MPEG-4 SLS audio standard. The technology was unveiled at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by Exploit Technologies, the commercialization ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/singapore%e2%80%99s-astar-unveils-adaptive-audio-streaming-technology/ Fishing can become a frustrating series of near misses and lost chances for the recreational sportsman. But John Caprio, PhD, George C. Kent professor in the department of biological sciences at Louisiana State University, has developed and licensed technology that takes the mystery out of reeling in the big one. ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/lsu-professor-develops-technology-to-take-mystery-out-of-fishing/ Engineers at the University of Michigan have developed a biosensor consisting of a strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes that can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water. The paper strips perform 28 times faster than the method most commonly used to detect microcystin-LR ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/u-michigan-technology-uses-paper-strips-to-detect-toxin-in-drinking-water/ Royalty Rates for Trademarks & Copyrights, 4th Edition has just been published, with 30% more transactions and benchmark rates featured. Along with an unrivaled set of benchmarksand real-world rates from transactions completed through 2009, this4th edition, published by IPRA Inc. and authored by royalty and valuation expert Russell Parr, also ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/new-edition-of-royalty-rates-for-trademarks-copyrights-released-2/ New York University has entered into an exclusive license with Proteostasis Therapeutics of Cambridge, MA, for IP related to discoveries from the laboratory of David Ron, MD, professor of medicine and Julius Raynes professor of cell biology at NYU Langone Medical Center's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. Ron's research focuses ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/nyu-inks-exclusive-license-with-proteostasis-therapeutics-for-cell-biology-ip/ A thick, gooey tide of glycerin is overwhelming the fledgling biofuels industry, but an innovation from Rice University may offer a solution. Though high-grade glycerin is used to make products like soaps, cosmetics, foods, and pharmaceuticals, vast quantities of crude glycerin are simply disposed as waste in the biofuel recovery ... http://www.technologytransfertactics.com/content/2010/01/13/glycerin-goes-from-soapy-bubble-to-biofuel-hero-using-rice-u-technology/