GeoVerse Lab
← Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Technology Transfer & Commercialization Center

Facilitates the transfer of research innovations to industry through licensing, partnerships, and knowledge exchange, covering patent landscaping, prior-art searches, technology valuation, and deal structuring. Manages the institute's intellectual-property portfolio and brokers technology-licensing agreements and collaborative research agreements (CRAs).

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Nikola Tesla🔑
⭐ Center Chief
Nikola Tesla
Center Head
💡 AC power, wireless transmission
Paul Berg🔑
1926–2023
Paul Berg
Researcher
💡 Pioneered recombinant DNA technology, whose subsequent patenting and licensing (the Cohen-Boyer patents) by Stanford's technology transfer office became the founding case study of biotechnology technology transfer
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Birch Bayh🔑
1928–2019
Birch Bayh
Researcher
💡 Co-authored the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which allowed universities to own and license patents from federally funded research, creating the modern legal foundation for collaborative and sponsored research agreements
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Frederic M. Scherer🔑
1932–2025
Frederic M. Scherer
Researcher
💡 Founded the empirical economics of patents and industrial organization, quantitatively analyzing how patent systems, licensing, and antitrust policy interact to shape innovation incentives
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Árpád Bogsch🔑
1919–2004
Árpád Bogsch
Researcher
💡 Directed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for over two decades and architected the modern international IP treaty system (Patent Cooperation Treaty, Madrid System) enabling cross-border technology transfer
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Chester Carlson🔑
1906–1968
Chester Carlson
Researcher
💡 Invented xerography and, after being rejected by over 20 companies, licensed it to Haloid (later Xerox), a landmark case study in patient IP-strategy execution and patent portfolio commercialization
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Theodore Newton Vail🔑
1845–1920
Theodore Newton Vail
Researcher
💡 Architected AT&T's patent licensing and royalty strategy for Bell's telephone patents, establishing the deal-structuring template for large-scale technology licensing negotiations
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Gerard I. Nierenberg🔑
1923–2012
Gerard I. Nierenberg
Researcher
💡 Founded the modern discipline of negotiation theory with The Art of Negotiating (1968) and established the Negotiation Institute, systematizing win-win deal-structuring methods used in licensing negotiations
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Giles S. Rich🔑
1904–1999
Giles S. Rich
Researcher
💡 Co-authored the Patent Act of 1952 and, as the longest-serving federal appellate judge, shaped the modern doctrine of patentability (non-obviousness) that governs what technologies can be patented
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Owen D. Young🔑
1874–1962
Owen D. Young
Researcher
💡 Founded RCA specifically to organize a patent pool and cross-licensing agreement among GE, Westinghouse, and AT&T, establishing the template for resolving overlapping patent claims through consortium licensing
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George Rathmann🔑
1927–2012
George Rathmann
Researcher
💡 Founded Amgen, pioneering the equity-licensing model where a biotech startup licenses academic/research IP in exchange for founder equity, becoming the template for biotech spin-off commercialization
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Learned Hand🔑
1872–1961
Learned Hand
Researcher
💡 As one of the most influential U.S. appellate judges never to sit on the Supreme Court, authored foundational opinions shaping American trade secret and unfair competition doctrine
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Bob Dole🔑
1923–2021
Bob Dole
Researcher
💡 Co-authored the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 with Birch Bayh, directly creating the institutional and legal conditions that led every major research university to establish a technology transfer office
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John Burr Williams🔑
1900–1989
John Burr Williams
Researcher
💡 Founded discounted cash flow valuation theory, the analytical foundation for modern technology and IP valuation methods used in licensing deals
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