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Our Experience |
- Screened portfolios ranging from 200 patents to thousands of inventions
- Participated in hundreds of technology licensing efforts for corporate, university, and government clients
- Helped organizations around the world find the inventions they need to solve their technical problems
- Gathered market intelligence in dozens of technical and market areas
- Developed training workshops, guidebooks, and instructional Web sites for a variety of clients
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Our Successes |
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Portfolio Screening |
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- Screened and categorized over 200 patents for a Fortune 200 company. Determined the 20 best technologies that merited additional market research.
- Organized thousands of patents for one of the Big Three automotive companies, which used the information to pursue commercialization.
- Screened over 700 technologies for a university. Reduced backlog problem and jump-started new technology transfer program.
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Technology Licensing |
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- Led effort to commercialize a portfolio of 230 patents for leading research university. Effort included several marketing plans. More than 20 of the best technologies entered into license negotiations. Sample Success: For an asphalt paving technology, negotiations that had stalled 2 years earlier were reinvigorated, resulting in a signed license worth 3 times the original offer.
- Developed targeted marketing lists of potential licensees of client technologies. Clients used lists to successfully contact companies with the greatest potential to license the technologies.
- Developed virtual tours of two NASA Goddard Space Flight Center laboratories. Products enabled Goddard to promote facilities without incurring costs of traveling to make in-person presentations or for hosting prospective users on an actual tour.
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Technology Sourcing |
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- Strategized, led, and closed a multi-million-dollar agreement for a client in-licensing a European-based middleware telecommunications software suite. Final agreement provided a significant reduction in royalty payments from the client’s proposed starting point, significantly increasing profits and probability of success.
- Identified component solution and manufacturing source for a drug delivery device, saving the client thousands in development costs.
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Market Intelligence |
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- Led investigative efforts into identifying best potential markets for leading medical diagnostics company, enabling company to pursue areas offering the best likelihood of success.
- Conducted competitive intelligence in order to accurately position a company strategy for out-licensing its technologies.
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Training |
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- Trained student interns and full-time commercialization office staff at leading research universities, enabling office to handle more IP management activities in-house.
- Trained staff at a Fortune 500 company, enhancing in-house capabilities.
- Performed a benchmark study of the technology transfer programs at several universities to determine strengths and weaknesses in the procedures and processes. Provided suggested content for training courses and strategies to improve commercialization successes.
- Provided training in writing technology listings for yet2.com and its clients, improving their ability to successfully market their available IP.
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