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This workshop will provide an overview of AUTM's new tool to assist universities in transferring research materials. Each of the components of the toolkit will be discussed: the decision tree, which assists with selecting the correct MTA for the transfer, the new AUTM MTA templates for use when existing standards are not appropriate, and best practices for transferring materials between academic institutions.
Trade secrets can be an institution's most valuable and prolonged assets. However, maintaining trade secrets in academic institutions can be challenging because trade secret protection requires secrecy, while academic institutions generally advocate publication and open collaboration. Furthermore, determining whether trade secret protection is appropriate in academic institutions can be complex. This session will shed light on these challenges by covering the basics of trade secrets, guidelines for choosing between patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets to protect inventions derived from academic institutions, and steps that academic institutions must take to protect trade secrets.
The benefits of having Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are clear. A key aspect of developing and managing SOPs is determining how these will be accessed, implemented and maintained within an organization. Generally centralized access to information is desired. This webinar will consider alternative vehicles for enabling collaborative content modification and centralized access to SOPs. Factors driving selection of the means will be discussed in relation to implementation and ongoing maintenance of SOPs. The session will include a case study concerning the implementation of SharePoint in a large commercialization office.
This webinar will be recorded live on January 30, 2024. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here. The session will review the recent Amgen Supreme Court Decision, which found that Amgen's patent covering its cholesterol lowering drug Repatha invalid for lack of enablement. The claims of the patent are broadly directed to an antibody that binds certain epitopes on the PCSK9 enzyme. The session will involve analyzing the Supreme Court's rationale for lack of enablement and explore its impact on patenting strategies for life science discoveries more generally.
This is a recorded session from 2017's Agreeement Maintenance Course.We all celebrate the signing of a new agreement as a job well done, but living with the deal and the terms of the deal can be a full time job. Whether it is an exclusive license with a company promising to bring your technology to market, or an inter-institutional agreement with the co-owner of your intellectual property rights, how can you be sure that your partners are living up to their end of the deal? This session will focus on agreement compliance, focusing on both financial and non-financial terms. Learn about instituting pre-agreement procedures that enhance post-license compliance; convincing your colleagues that post-licensing compliance requires a "team" approach; and using checklists, correspondence templates, and your databases as tools for enhancing post-license, all while focusing on building and maintaining the relationships with your partners that are essential to getting technology and products to market and creating value.
This series of five webinars was recorded in January-February, 2022. Access includes all five sessions. Topics include: Collaborative Research Agreements, Data Transfer Agreements, Material Transfer Agreements, Inter-Institutional Agreements and Confidential Disclosures
Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied in the medical field. From disease-specific diagnostics to patient-precise surgery and therapeutics, the AI architecture employs analytical software and patient-based training data. In this session, we'll discuss how universities, especially those affiliated with a medical school or research hospital, may be uniquely suited to license training data separately from analytical software. Collaborating universities and affiliates may pool their training data, resulting in a data collection that is in high demand by industry and new licensing opportunities.
This webinar will be recorded live on December 7, 2022. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here. In the webinar, the co-presenters will engage in a hypothetical dialogue between a university licensing officer and an outside patent attorney discussing an AI innovation that the university is considering for patenting. They will explore questions including: whether the innovation is patentable, how to frame the claims for maximum licensing value, whether to divide the claims into multiple applications, and how the claiming format supports identifying licensing partners. The discussion will focus on practical issues raised by AI which could otherwise easily be overlooked, in a format that is designed to emulate the day-to-day challenges that universities face when patenting and licensing innovations in AI.
This webinar will compare litigation before the International Trade Commission (ITC) to that in District Courts and will cover some of the strategies, tactical considerations and advantages with respect to litigation in the ITC. This webinar is ideal for university technology transfer associates, directors, counsel, and intellectual property (IP) practitioners at law firms who represents clients in licensing, IP and litigation matters.
Whether you are involved in license maintenance, finance, or patent administration, you need to understand license agreements to effectively do your job. This session will include an introduction to license agreements by describing the various sections of a typical license agreement and providing an explanation of the importance of the various terms. A discussion of the differences between license agreements for patent rights, copyright/software, and trademark will be included.
Whether you are involved in license maintenance, finance, or patent administration, you need to understand license agreements to effectively do your job. This session will include an introduction to license agreements by describing the various sections of a typical license agreement and providing an explanation of the importance of the various terms. A discussion of the differences between license agreements for patent rights, copyright/software, and trademark will be included. With Arabic subtitles
This is a recorded session from 2017's Agreeement Maintenance Course. For attendees who play a role in managing executed license agreements, the ability to read a license agreement and to understand each party's obligations under it is a key skill for doing your job effectively. This session will help attendees understand the obligations - both your institution's and the licensees' - owed under license agreements. Using examples, this session will provide an explanation of the sections and terms of typical license agreements, with attention to those most relevant to administrators. The session will include an interactive discussion of best practices for reporting, invoicing, and calendaring to ensure that your university receives the money, reports, and other obligations due under a license for years to come.
There is much excitement and hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and it will transform businesses in all industry sectors including energy, agriculture, law, finance, healthcare, and transport. The session will address commercialization strategies for AI systems, including an intellectual property strategy with layered IP rights to protect different aspects of the innovation, along with a legal toolkit to navigate ethical and legal considerations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is employed in everything from computer-generated imagery (CGI) to medical diagnoses to 3D printing. However, laws have not kept up with AI innovations. The patent laws of most countries (including the U.S.) define an "inventor" as a person, i.e., a human being. For example, what if a synthetic entity (AI) assists an inventor or author to invent or create - or what if the synthetic entity independently creates - a painting or literature, discovers a medical breakthrough, or produces a 3D article extrapolated from rudimentary data input? Isn’t the AI an inventor or author? Can the AI itself be protected by patents or copyright? How can AI be used as a supporting tool by inventors and patent attorneys? What are the ethical and professional responsibility implications of employing AI? This presentation will define AI and examine questions that will help suggest best practices for using AI and protecting AI-related intellectual property.
We are entering the third wave of the artificial intelligence (AI) evolution, which is disrupting and revolutionizing many industries. While some worry about the unchecked expansion of AI, others praise its potential to improve life. This panel will present the framework and terminology of AI and delve into some of its applications and impacts on technology transfer. Speakers from both university and industry will explore the challenges and applications in licensing practices, and describe non-traditional university-industry deals, while exploring applications, including healthcare indications and social media. Proposed solutions will be presented and speakers will address the background and current state of AI patent subject eligibility.
While technology transfer has profound impacts worldwide, communicating results can be a challenge and it would be naïve to assume there's no room for improvement. But how do we demonstrate how we are doing and identify where we can improve? This session will look at several different approaches being developed outside of the traditional long time lag metrics to enable offices to critically assess their performance and identify opportunities for improvement. If you're responsible for office leadership and performance improvement or reporting, this can't miss session is for you.
This webinar will be recorded live on April 20, 2021. The recording will be available within 30 days of the event date. You may pre-order the recording here. While technology transfer has profound impacts worldwide, communicating results can be a challenge and it would be naïve to assume there's no room for improvement. But how do we demonstrate how we are doing and identify where we can improve? This session will look at several different approaches being developed outside of the traditional long time lag metrics to enable offices to critically assess their performance and identify opportunities for improvement. If you're responsible for office leadership and performance improvement or reporting, this can't miss session is for you.