Experience
5 yrs required
Location
Baltimore, MD, United States
Posted on
Oct 17, 2015
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Senior Technology Licensing Officer
Duties: Manages a docket of complex technologies, applying scientific subject matter expertise and advanced level technology marketing and licensing skills. Building and maintaining faculty relationships, assessing technologies, and managing marketing and licensing activities. Establishes and maintains positive, productive, and beneficial relationships with faculty and builds strong industry relationships with companies that are licensees or are potential licensees of UM technologies. Implements targeted marketing to companies; an initiate company contacts; and develops relationships with key company licensing personnel. Identify and qualify potential licensing opportunities and licensees. Review highly complex invention disclosures to identify commercial product scenarios, unique features and benefits, and other key information. Evaluate the market potential of inventions, including, market size and dynamics, market needs addressed by inventions, competitive positions and barriers to entering the marketplace. Determine an invention's current stage of development and future development paths. Recommend technology transfer paths for inventions (e.g., patent, waive rights, assign rights to inventors Develop Intellectual Property (IP) protection strategies in consultation with Patent Group, Inventor and IP counsel. Communicate IP investment decision to inventor(s). Develop licensing and commercialization strategies for inventions retained by the University. Negotiate license agreements, including agreements requiring a high degree of technology licensing skill and knowledge. Review IP terms in other contracts such as clinical trial agreements and other research agreements. Assign effort on University grants to coordinator inventions resulting from projects. Work with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, inventors and funding agencies to assist in the creation of start-up companies in order to license and advance University technologies. Maintain current market knowledge as well as a familiarity and understanding of market areas and development pipelines for potential licensees. Perform other duties as assigned, such as coordination of work of others.
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