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& Commercialize Your Innovations</div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="main-wrapper"> <div id="main" class="clearfix"> <div id="content" class="column"> <div class="inside"> <a id="main-content"></a> <div class="tabs"></div> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-116" class="node node-page slider-secondary clearfix" about="/tech_commercialization_process" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="Tech Commercialization Process" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h4>The powerful combination of high quality science, an entrepreneurial culture, and strong partnerships between UCSF’s investigators and experienced team has resulted in an impressive track record of commercial successes. </h4> <h2>How We Work With You</h2> <h3>Step One: Grow Your Idea</h3> <p>We are excited to talk to you, even months or years before you are ready to disclose your innovation. Contact us so we can help you plan your next steps to developing a commercially viable product or solution. We can advise you on:</p> <ul> <li>Data needed to support your patent application</li> <li>What proof of concept data will be important for engaging industry partners</li> <li>Market opportunity for your idea</li> <li>Resources to help you advance your program, whether a software developer, an engineer to build a device prototype, or a contract lab to test pharmaceutical properties of your small molecule.</li> </ul> <p>These are just a few ways we can help you grow your idea. Whether you need help finding funding, or development partners, or gaining strategic planning input, you can always contact us: we’ll work with you and connect you to the resources you need to be successful.</p> <h3>Step Two: Protect Your Idea</h3> <p>If you have an invention or technology that you think is new, exciting and has potential as a commercial product or application, please contact our office. <strong><a href="https://innovation.ucsf.edu/protecting-your-idea">Click Here</a></strong> for more information.</p> <h3>Step Three: Technology Evaluation</h3> <p>There are several factors we consider when we evaluate your innovation and you, as the inventor and expert in your scientific area, remain critical in aiding this process. </p> <p>Some of the questions we evaluate include:</p> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Commercialization Potential?</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <ul> <li>What is the product and its commercial need?</li> <li>Will a company need exclusivity to commercialize this innovation?</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>IP Protection Necessary to Protect the Technology?</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <ul> <li>Is it a therapeutic, diagnostic or device?</li> <li>Is it a software product, app or copyright? </li> <li>Is it a research tool, such as a transgenic model, cell line or non-therapeutic antibody?</li> </ul> <p>As a general rule, products requiring significant financial input before they reach the market will benefit from patent protection. Examples include therapeutics, diagnostics and devices. Software and apps are already protected under copyright law. Research tools have inherent property rights and therefore rarely require patent protection for successful commercialization. In addition, <strong><a href="https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/IPAwareness/story_html5.html">Click Here</a></strong> for an interactive course of patents, copyright, trademarks and trade secrets.</p> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Stage of Development?</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <ul> <li>How far along is the product?</li> <li>Is funding available to move the product to the next stage of development?</li> <li>What work is needed to further validate the technology?</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Some Factors Considered by Companies when Deciding Whether to Take a License to a UCSF Technology?</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <ul> <li>Stage of development and strength of data</li> <li>Market size</li> <li>Market demand/unmet need</li> <li>Whether the product is novel, a me-too product, or an improvement to an existing product</li> <li>Strength of patent rights and ability to exclude competitors from the market</li> <li>Legal issues, such as ownership of the product, need to license additional rights from a third party, etc.</li> <li>If the inventor is interested in starting a company to develop the technology.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>IP Protection and Commercialization Plan</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <ul> <li>Working closely with the inventor(s), our evaluation process results in the generation of an IP protection and commercialization plan, with an eventual goal of licensing the technology to an external partner.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <h3>Step Four: Market UCSF Technologies</h3> <p>We have a number of strategies to maximize our ability to partner your innovations. Some of these strategies include:</p> <ul> <li>Reviewing, selecting and contacting companies, entrepreneurs, and venture funds whose interests best align with your innovation</li> <li>Working together with UCSF’s News Office to develop public announcements around innovative discoveries</li> <li>Publicizing technology summaries on our website, the UC-wide technology site, and other sites such as iBridge </li> <li>Uncovering and facilitating opportunities for inventors to present data to potential industry partners</li> </ul> <p>Once we have commercial interest in your innovation, we’ll work hard to help get your technology licensed, obtain a sponsored research agreement or both. We will be mindful of disclosing your inventions thoughtfully so as to preserve confidentiality, both to protect your work and to safeguard any IP rights. Don’t forget to make sure any presentations or discussions of your innovations are under confidentiality, and don’t hesitate to talk to us if you aren’t sure if you need a confidentiality agreement.</p> <h3>Step Five: License UCSF Technologies</h3> <p>UCSF offers a variety of licenses and agreements to handle the transfer of our technologies to the marketplace.</p> <p>Licenses and Agreements:</p> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Exclusive Licenses</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <p>Exclusive licenses grant a single external partner the right to commercialize an invention in a particular market segment or “field of use.” Exclusive licenses are typically granted for technologies requiring substantial financial input from a partner to bring the technology to the market and where exclusivity in that market is necessary to recuperate the financial investment, such as a patented therapeutic.</p> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Non-Exclusive Licenses</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <p>Non-exclusive licenses provide multiple external partners the rights to commercialize the same invention. Such licenses are typically granted for research tools, software, screening assays and some diagnostics. Non-exclusive licenses enable maximum public benefit by permitting broad access.</p> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Option Agreements</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <p>Option agreements provide one or more external partners a specified, limited time to evaluate a technology before entering into a full license agreement.</p> </div> </div> <div class="collapse-item"> <div aria-expanded="false" class="header-text" role="button" tabindex="0"> <p>Letters of Intent (LOIs)</p> </div> <div aria-hidden="true" class="content-text" role="region" tabindex="-1"> <p>LOIs are simple, short-term agreements that enable UCSF to exclusively reserve a technology for an external partner while the parties negotiate the terms of an exclusive license or an option agreement. 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