Technology Transfer Tactics monthly newsletter
Technology Transfer Tactics monthly newsletter covers the real-world problems, delicate issues, and high-stakes opportunities you grapple with daily. Our veteran journalists go behind the scenes to bring you detailed, actionable information and advice with a very specific and single-minded goal: To help you find, develop, license, and bring to market your organization’s valuable intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Marketing Advisor monthly newsletter
Intellectual Property Marketing Advisor monthly newsletter helps you apply detailed, proven marketing tactics and high-level sales techniques to your IP portfolio - so you can bring in more licenses and more revenues. Plus, you’ll get high-impact internal strategies approaches that will garner more recognition for your efforts, greater involvement and cooperation from researchers, higher awareness among key stakeholders, and a stronger flow of invention disclosures.

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Upcoming Audioconferences
Here is a list of our upcoming live audioconferences for tech transfer professionals. Click here for our complete list of titles for the next 12 months.

• TTOs: Fast-Track Your Innovations — Wednesday, September 15, 2010 ~ 1:00-2:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
• Get Your Student Body on the Innovation Team — Thursday, September 23, 2010 ~ 1:00-2:30 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
• Ensure Effective Leadership for University Start-Ups: Best Practice Mentorships and Executive-In-Residence Programs — Wednesday, September 29, 2010 ~ 1:00-2:00 pm (Eastern Daylight Time)
• Click here to view our line of audioconferences specifically for IP attorneys

Distance Learning Subscription Programs
With the programs below you can save up to 60% off of our normal audioconference enrollment fees. The more you attend, the more you save! It’s a great way to stretch your professional development budget, eliminate travel costs while enhancing staff expertise, and conveniently get critical guidance on the key issues you must address to boost your TTO’s performance and bring more licensing revenues in the door.

• NEW! The Distance Learning Program Pass allows you the flexibility to pick the sessions that best meet your information and training needs as you need them from our menu of strategy-filled events. Choose from over 50 distance learning programs (past and future) packed with practical, immediately useful, how-to advice for less than the cost of one in-person conference.  Click here for details >>
• NEW! The 2010 Distance Learning Subscription Program allows you to pick the titles you want right now from the audioconference sessions that best meet your information and training needs from 25 strategy-filled audio events on the 2010 schedule. Click here for details >>
  

Past Audioconferences on CD or Online
These are all of our past audioconferences available either on CD, MP3, PDF trancript, or video (please check each title for available formats) with all of the original conference materials included as well.

• The Future of Patenting in Biomedicine
• Bilski: The Impact of the Final Decision on University TTOs
• International Patenting Strategies: Cost-Effectively Expand Your Market and Boost Your TTO’s Revenues
• Bullet-Proof Your License Agreements: Prevent Post-License Disputes and Shed Dead-Weight Licensees
• Protect Your Patents from Inequitable Conduct Charges
• SPECIAL 6-PART SERIES! Start-Up Boot Camp for University TTO Professionals and Inventors
• Prevent Faculty Disputes from Turning Into a Declaration of War
• The Perfect Elevator Pitch: Sell Your IP in 3 Minutes or Less!
• TTOs: Use Social Media Effectively to Market Your Innovations
• University Researchers: Tap Into Your Inner CEO
• Become Industry Friendly: Transform Your TTO Into a Licensee Magnet
• Working Effectively with University Counsel to Speed the Licensing Process
• Stretch Your TTO’s Budget: Tap Into Industry Resources and Partnerships
• The Bilski Decision: Expert Strategies to Manage Its Impact on University IP
• Tech Transfer Marketing on a Shoestring: Guerilla Tactics in a Budget-Cut World
• Performing Market Research Studies: Testing the Waters to De-Risk Your IP Investments
• Patent Prosecution: Best Practices for Reducing Costs While Improving Patent Quality
• “Shrink Wrap” Your University’s Technologies for Industry: Packaging Your Innovations to Minimize Corporate Risk and Extract Optimum Licensing Value
• Successful outsourcing for tech transfer organizations
• Post-License Monitoring and Support: Performance and Revenue Enhancement Strategies (and When All Else Fails How to Pull the Plug and Take Back Your IP)
• Tech Transfer Partnerships: Establishing Effective Legal and Operational Structures for Long-Term Success
• Home Run Strategies: Finding, Nurturing, and Securing Maximum Revenues from Disruptive University Technologies
• Shifting Your TTO from Market Push to Market Pull: Finding the White Space
• The New TTO Metrics: Documenting Job Creation, Economic Impact, and Other “Dark Matter” Performance Indicators
• The Top 10 Legal Minefields for TTOs and How To Step Around Them
• Best Practices for Marketing University and Federal Lab Technologies
• The IRS Targets TTOs: Hot Spots for Tax Compliance and Audit Avoidance Strategies
• Launch Your Own VC! Create Your Own Funding Vehicle For University Technologies
• Getting the Deal Done: Achieving a Business-Minded Approach to Tech Transfer in a Bureaucratic Environment
• Conflict of Interest in University Research: Strengthen Your Process and Policies
• IP Bundling: Establish Effective Partnerships to Increase the Value of Your Innovations
• Time Saving Tactics for Technology Transfer Professionals: Achieve Success While Doing More with Less
• International Licensing of University Technologies: Opportunities and Pitfalls
• Create A Winning Incentive System for Tech Transfer Staff
• License Negotiation Workshop for Tech Transfer Professionals: Real-World Tactics for Maximizing Licensing Revenues
• What Patent Trolls Can Teach TTOs About Extracting Value From IP
• University Start-Up Best Practices: Building a Foundation for Survival and a Path to Profits
• Invention Assessment and Triage: Improve Your TTO’s Process and Optimize Resource Allocation
• IP Valuation Workshop for Tech Transfer Professionals
• Great Ideas for Improving Faculty Outreach and Enhancing Researcher-TTO Relations
• A Step-By-Step Guide to Business Planning for Tech Transfer Organizations
• Internship Best Practices for TTOs: How Student Team Members Can Boost Overall Productivity, Reduce Costs and Speed IP Assessment and Triage
• Recession Survival Strategies for TTOs: How to Grow Despite Budget Cuts and Economic Mayhem
• Best Practices and Trends in Royalty Monetization
• Royalty Audits: Are You Getting What You Bargained For?
• Selling university IP in cyberspace: Best practices in web-based marketing for tech transfer professionals
• Patent law update for tech transfer professionals: What’s now, what’s next, and what you need to do about it
• VCs and Angels speak to TTOs: ‘Here’s what we want to see — and what we don’t’
• Performance improvement strategies and techniques for tech transfer offices: Boost efficiency and get more accomplished every day
• Strategies for small tech transfer offices: Doing more with less
• Tech transfer metrics: Establish meaningful performance measures and demonstrate your TTO’s true value
• Secrets of Win-Win Contracts: Negotiating and Contracting Tips from the Tech Transfer Experts
• Mining for Low-Tech Gold: Turning University Creative Works into New Licensing Dollars
• Separating the Winners from the Losers: Conducting an Effective Market Analysis for Your University’s Inventions
• Escaping the Valley of Death: Overcome the Funding Gap for Early-Stage University IP
• Valuation Strategies for Tech Transfer Professionals: Know What Your IP is Worth and Maximize Your Revenue Opportunities
• Marketing Your Innovations: Best Practices for Tech Transfer Professionals
• The Rapidly Evolving Patent Landscape: Practical Impact for Tech Transfer Professionals

Podcasts-On-Demand
Now you can benefit from our highly acclaimed audioconferences at your convenience. Eliminate travel expenses and increase your productivity while gaining expert advice for the daily challenges you face in your TTO. Thousands of your colleagues are already reducing their carbon footprint by purchasing our podcasts. Isn’t it time you did too? Each podcast is 100% guaranteed for quality or your money back. No gimmicks- no questions asked. Click here for details >>

The Technology Transfer Marketing and Outreach Library
This one-of-a-kind library contains over 16 hours of detailed, proven marketing tactics focused squarely on helping you can bring in more licenses and more revenues. Click here for details >>

The 2010 IP Funding Bundle
6 strategy-filled programs with 9 hours of top-notch advice, practical ideas, and how-to guidance from industry experts on securing the funding your IP needs to move toward commercialization, licensing, start-up — and revenue for your institution. Click here for details >>

Audioconferences Specifically for IP Attorneys
View our new line of audioconferences specifically for IP attorneys from our partner Strafford Specialized Information Services. Strafford teleconferences and publications focus on the most current and relevant issues of the day-immediately analyzing new developments and quickly disseminating critical information. CLE credits are available on most titles, as well as a variety of formats in case you are not able to attend the live program. Click here for details >>

Mastering Deemed Exports
Mastering Deemed Exports is an invaluable video training tool that helps exporters, universities and research laboratories alert all employees to the potential fines and legal sanctions that can come from violating EAR and ITAR restrictions on giving certain foreign nationals access to controlled U.S. technology. Click here for details >>

NEW! The Tech Transfer Library, Volume II
Volume II of our popular Tech Transfer Library has just been released! The Tech Transfer Library series, compiled from our world-leading newsletters, offers an inexpensive way to focus in on key topics of interest in one convenient report filled with case studies, best practices, expert guidance, and how-to strategies in 8 critical areas. Click here for details >>

Royalty Rate Resource Books from IPRA, Inc.
Technology Transfer Tactics is pleased to present three new royalty rate resource books, published by our partner Intellectual Property Research Associates, Inc., dedicated to reporting detailed information about the economic aspects of intellectual property transactions including licensing and joint ventures. Click here for details >>

Valuation Guidance from BVR, LLC
Technology Transfer Tactics is proud to partner with Business Valuation Resources (BVR) in bringing their important guides, teleconferences, and live events to our customers.

• NEW! BVR/Morningstar Summit on Best Practices in Valuing Intellectual Property — This first-ever event offers the opportunity to meet one on one with the regulators and other thought leaders in IP valuation.
• Royalty Rates in Copyright Agreements: A Guide to Full-Text Copyright Agreements — In this newly released reference you’ll find over 1,000 pages of executed license agreements filled with critical real-world data and templates to help ensure you receive optimum value for your intellectual property.
• Royalty Rates in Biotech: BVR’s Guide to Full-Text Licensing Agreements — In the newly released reference we’ve done the work for you, gathering over 500 pages of full-text copies of actual licensing agreements in the biotech industry.
• Guide to Valuations for IRC 409A Compliance — This new resource focuses on the nuts and bolts of performing valuation and allocation analyses specifically related to Internal Revenue Code 409A.
• Calculating Lost Profit in IP and Patent Infringement Cases — This new guide brings together the comprehensive body of knowledge on lost profits damages and delivers the definitive resource for financial experts and attorneys.
• The Guide to Intellectual Property Valuation — If you’re in the trenches of IP valuation, this all-new, 127-page guide is a must-have resource authored by one of the world’s leading experts in IP valuation.
• An IP Cost of Capital Estimation Model — Whereas many IP cost of capital estimations are adjusted using little more than the appraiser’s experience, Mike Pellegrino has developed a model that captures the unique attributes of IP using objective empirical evidence. That model will be presented in “An IP Cost of Capital Estimation Model,” a 100-minute teleconference hosted by our partner BVR, LLC.

Market Research Reports
Technology Transfer Tactics is pleased to present a new line of research reports, published by our partner Business Insights, a world leader in strategic market analysis. Business Insights‘ portfolio of reports is designed to help you make well-informed and timely business decisions. With an understanding of problems facing today’s research commercialization professionals and executives, Business Insights helps you crystallize your strategic planning and drive your organization forward. Click here for details >>

Therapy Area Pipeline Reports
Through a new partnership with Life Science Analytics, Technology Transfer Tactics is offering access to specialized drug pipeline reports that offer an unprecedented level of detail on drug development activity in more than 150 specific therapy areas. You can choose only the individual reports you need in downloadable PDF format, or subscribe to the entire database and receive updated pipeline information whenever you need it throughout the year. Click here for details >>

Technology Transfer Multi-Media Bundles
Technology Transfer Tactics is now offering affordable, topic-specific Multi-Media Bundles covering the most critical challenges facing tech transfer professionals. Choose one or more convenient bundles filled with case studies, best practices, expert guidance, and how-to strategies in 4 critical areas. Click here for details >>

Software/Tools

• RoyaltyStat Subscription Database -- RoyaltyStat is the premier subscription database, containing nearly 10,000 easily searchable license agreements from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Click here for details >>
• The e-Zassi InnoVision^TM Decision Support Software Tool — Now you can bring your medical device technology to market faster, save precious dollars to pour back into technology development and marketing, and nearly instantly gather critical due diligence data - all without risking intellectual property exposure. Click here for details >>
• The US FDA Regulatory Calculator — Within minutes, the US FDA Regulatory Calculator provides users with a potential FDA predicate, regulation product code, and the classification and regulatory pathway associated with a medical technology. With this new tool, you’ll save hours in initial research and eliminate the need for outside experts early in the process. You can immediately review and save your results, and e-mail your output to colleagues for review. Click here for details >>
• ktMine Royalty Rate Database – ktMINE is an online, interactive IP database that allows you to quickly find true market comparables from a goldmine of license agreements and documents. Click here for details >>
• Competitive Advantage Valuation Software — CAV Software gives inventors/assignors/licensors, and prospective assignees/ licensees a single, straight-forward method for determining IP value. Created by nationally recognized IP law expert Ted Hagelin, the CAV Software yields clear and logical valuation results through a single program platform for actionable negotiation, planning and reporting. Click here for details >>
• Biz Plan Builder Professional - Business Plan Software — Biz Plan Builder makes it easy for you to organize your ideas, calculate your costs, your profits, and express your business vision with clarity. Click here for details >>

Have your innovation featured in Hot I.P.
Hot I.P. is a regular e-bulletin presenting the best available technologies from universities and research institutions around the world. All submissions are judged as top-echelon, vetted innovations by the submitting organizations, and then are reviewed for quality, novelty, and likely market acceptance by Hot I.P.’s editorial staff prior to acceptance for publication. Click here for details >>

Apparel etc.

• The exclusive “Tech Transfer Wizard” t-shirt