Technology Transfer & Commercialization
Features:
- A technology transfer success story
- Information for researchers
- From bench to bedside
- List of current technologies
Forms:
- Invention Disclosure
- Material Transfer Agreement
HJF's technology transfer staff encourages scientists and private industry to collaborate on research and development projects, with the goal of making innovative medical technologies available for clinical use. Established in 2000, the Joint (USU & HJF) Office of Technology Transfer (JOTT) was created to advance inventions by HJF and Uniformed Services University (USU) researchers. Although the JOTT assists HJF scientists who are not affiliated with USU, the vast majority of this work involves inventions developed at the university.
HJF will negotiate the following agreements on your behalf to protect your intellectual property:
- Material Transfer Agreements for the transfer of reagents to and from USU
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements between USU and industry
- Agreements controlling information disclosure, such as Confidential Disclosure Agreements or Non-Disclosure Agreements, when you plan to discuss your research with commercial parties or share proprietary data with scientific collaborators.
The principal service HJF provides to protect your research results is filing and prosecuting patent applications on your invention. An issued patent will enable the patent holder to prevent competitors from making, using or selling your novel innovation. HJF will help protect your invention by:
- Preparing invention disclosure forms for the JOTT
- Evaluating invention disclosures
- Conducting a patentability review
- Inviting inventors to present their inventions at monthly Joint Patent and Technology Review Group meetings (held the second week of each month)
- Coordinating patent filing and prosecution with outside patent counsel
- Assuming all costs associated with patent filing and prosecution.
HJF also actively markets USU technologies and patent rights to potential licensees so your scientific ideas can be further developed into viable products and services.
HJF will assist with the marketing and licensing of your technology by:
- Conducting a market assessment to identify companies that might be interested
- Marketing technology to potential licensees
- Negotiating license agreements
- Monitoring licensee performance
- Collecting and distributing royalty payments.
Each fiscal year, each inventor will receive the first $2,000 of licensing revenue per invention and share (if there is more than one inventor) 20 percent of the remainder. Federal statute stipulates that inventors who are federal employees cannot receive more than $150,000 per year (total for all inventions), unless an exception is approved by the president of the United States. Revenue to the university historically goes to the department or laboratory in which the invention originated.
If you have technology transfer, commercialization or intellectual property questions, please contact us.