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Technology Transfer & Commercialization Department

The Technology Transfer & Commercialization Department teaches the practice of moving research innovations into industry through licensing, partnerships, and knowledge exchange. Students learn patent landscaping, prior-art searches, technology valuation, and deal structuring through case exercises, and study intellectual-property portfolio management, graduating and entering the workforce with real experience brokering and sitting at the negotiating table for technology-licensing agreements and collaborative research agreements (CRAs).

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Field-based Curriculum · 13

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Patent Law & Patentability Doctrine
Patent Law & Patentability Doctrine
The course teaches patentability doctrine — novelty, non-obviousness, disclosure…
Giles S. Rich
Technology & IP Valuation Methods
Technology & IP Valuation Methods
The course teaches valuation of intangibles — patents, know-how, data — training…
John Burr Williams
Licensing Negotiation & Royalty Economics
Licensing Negotiation & Royalty Economics
The course teaches licensing negotiation and royalty economics — converting excl…
Theodore Newton Vail
Negotiation Theory for Deal Structuring
Negotiation Theory for Deal Structuring
The course turns negotiation theory into teachable methodology, training the cra…
Gerard I. Nierenberg
Collaborative & Sponsored Research Agreements (Bayh-Dole Model)
Collaborative & Sponsored Research Agreements (Bayh-Dole Model)
The course teaches the modern structure of sponsored-research agreements created…
Birch Bayh
University Technology Transfer Office Model
University Technology Transfer Office Model
The course teaches the full-cycle operations of the university technology transf…
Bob Dole
Trade Secret Law & Protection
Trade Secret Law & Protection
The course teaches the requirements of trade-secret protection and the doctrine …
Learned Hand
Biotech/Academic Spin-off & Equity Licensing
Biotech/Academic Spin-off & Equity Licensing
The course teaches equity licensing and science-based spin-off formation — trans…
George Rathmann
Corporate IP Strategy & Patent Portfolio Management
Corporate IP Strategy & Patent Portfolio Management
The course teaches management of corporate patents, know-how, and trademarks as …
Chester Carlson
Biotechnology Technology Transfer Origins
Biotechnology Technology Transfer Origins
The course teaches the events and institutions by which recombinant DNA moved fr…
Paul Berg
Economics of Patents, Licensing & Antitrust Policy
Economics of Patents, Licensing & Antitrust Policy
The course teaches the economics that treats patents as policy machinery to be d…
Frederic M. Scherer
International IP Treaties & Global Technology Transfer
International IP Treaties & Global Technology Transfer
The course teaches the international IP treaty system running from the Paris Con…
Árpád Bogsch
Patent Pools & Cross-Licensing Consortia
Patent Pools & Cross-Licensing Consortia
The course teaches patent pools and cross-licensing consortia — devices turning …
Owen D. Young