Tom Fitzsimons Center for Technology Transfer

 Center for Technology Transfer ◦ Protect and commercialize faculty and staff inventions for the public good. ◦ Details are in the UPENN Patent Policy  Undergraduate student inventions are generally not covered  See:

 IP is a property right  It is codified in law and/or custom  It is owned by its creators although they may have contractual obligations to give it to others  It can be bought, sold and valued. It can also be given away for FREE.

IP is something that you can do that NO ONE ELSE can do or That no one else can easily or conveniently “duplicate”.

 Patents!!! 1.a. A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time. b. An invention protected by such a grant. 2.a. A grant made by a government that confers on an individual fee-simple title to public lands. 3. An exclusive right or title.

 Patents  Copyrights  Trademarks  Know-how  Trade Secrets

 Patents  Copyrights  Trademarks  Know-how  Trade Secrets

Next year, he'll make more than twice as much as all of our past presidents for all of their terms combined. And Jordan will only have to have this income for 270 more years to have a net worth equivalent to that of Bill Gates.

 Novel  Useful  Non-obvious Can be broad or narrow – a new idea or improvement to an old idea.

IMHO – patents rarely contain new matter; rather they take solutions from one area and apply them to another. The notable exception is some chemical patents which cover new compositions of matter. Patents almost always build on the old state- of-the-art, generally by analogous thinking! (see TRIZ "The theory of inventor's problem solving“ as an example of an innovation system)

The mouse patent built on developments in a wide variety of fields and synthesized them into a new application. It spawned an abundance of improvements and modifications. Many of these had commercial value.

copyright  Date: 1735  the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work) Includes the concept of derivative works.

copyright  Date: 1735  the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work) Includes the concept of derivative works.

Date: 1838 knowledge of how to do something smoothly and efficiently  Related to Trade Secrets  Frequently held back by scientists in publications, often unwittingly.

 Center for Technology Transfer ◦ Protect and commercialize faculty and staff inventions for the public good. ◦ Details are in the UPENN Patent Policy  Undergraduate student inventions are generally not covered  See:

  Penn Patent Policy  Penn Copyright Policy 