Patents, and technology transfer

Chapter 9 describes in greater detail patent and technology transfer policies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and their implications for pharmaceutical R D. 

In academic environments, the establishment of industrial property and technology transfer offices has arisen from the increased activities to protect inventions, the need to transfer technologies to enable their production, and from legal requirements for obtaining patents, all driven... 

Some activities need to be carried out jointly by the industrial property and technology transfer specialists. An example is the decision on whether or not an invention is patentable, or should be patented, based on technical and economic considerations, and industrial property policies. 

In addition to authoring more than 60 publications and receiving two patents, Rowell has presented numerous papers at national and international scientific meetings, organized national and international symposia, and has been active in consulting and technology transfer of his research. 

Selected Resources for Patents, Inventions, and Technology Transfer selected by Stanford University. 

G. Stuart, "Technology Transfer— Patents and Licenses Productir. Technol 4, 10—13 (1979). 

Kinsley Wilson is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the role of technology transfer in the local production of patented anti-retrovirals for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Wilson also has spent time working with the healthcare management consulting firm Sanigest Internacional in Costa Rica and Slovakia on pharmaceutical policy-related issues. 

The Caltech Technology Transfer Office has issued approximately 40 to 50 patent licenses and options each year. That makes it approximately number three in the nation, which is remarkable for a comparatively small institution. In short, the Technology Transfer Office succeeded because it convinced the faculty that they were there to serve the professors, not the administration or the venture capital community. 

Richard Koehn I do not think the universities have any idea how intellectual property laws relate to the general research mission of the institution or its desire to exploit the fruits of that research through commercialization. It is completely different when you are doing research in chemistry on a particular area and you see some particular applications in mind, but you are actually utilizing patented procedures or processes in that research. Have you violated the patent The question of a patent violation in research laboratories is extremely sophisticated, and most technology transfer offices at universities do not know that the issue exists or how to think about it. Now that the universities are thinking about exploiting the commercial value of a project, they need to ask what process was used to produce the fruits of that project. That is a different level of sophistication. 

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