Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration

News

Medical Devices: Licensing Opportunities
Read about opportunities to license medical devices from Lahey Clinic, Tufts Medical Center, and Tufts University.

Start-Ups

1/23/08 - MIT's Technology Review highlights the DNA-based artificial nose sensor technology being developed by Tufts start-up Cogniscent Inc. Read more here.

8/24/07 - Mass High Tech, a weekly print and online publication, has reported on the successful launch of Tufts start-up Quanterix Inc. Read more here.

Technology Transfer at Tufts

Through technology transfer, discoveries made during the course of research or other programs at the University are licensed to industry for commercialization.

Core Activities

Invention disclosure intake • Patent applications • Patent maintenance • Nondisclosure agreements • Options • License agreements • Start-Ups • Material transfer agreements • Clinical trial agreements • Industry-sponsored research agreements • Trademark and copyright agreements • Interinstitutional agreements

Outreach

Intellectual property seminars • Departmental visits • Tech Transfer traineeships • BIO (Biotechnology Industry Organization) • Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center

Seminar on Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurism

On November 7, 2008, OTL&IC presented the perspectives of Brenda Jarrell, an IP attorney, Clifford Woolf, an academic entrepreneur, and Doug Cole, a venture capitalist, all engaged in helping to commercialize early stage research. Kenneth Kaitin, Director of the Center for the Study of Drug Development, helped to moderate the event. Brenda Jarrell's presentation on intellectual property is included here.