COMMERCIALIZATION CONNECT
OCTOBER 2019
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Meet Matt Upton Our New OTC Senior Associate Director
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The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is excited to announce the addition of Matthew Upton as our new senior associate director of the Intellectual Property Development Team. Matt brings extensive knowledge as a licensed patent attorney, and is focused on working with University of Kentucky (UK) innovators to identify, analyze, and protect innovations developed at UK.
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UK Women Innovators Network (UKWIN) Conference
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OTC had a great turnout for our 2nd annual UKWIN Innovators & Entrepreneurs Conference. UK and Lexington community members were very engaged and had the opportunity to interact with our fabulous presenter/panelists. We appreciate everyone who came out to celebrate women innovators & entrepreneurs.
We would like to thank our amazing speakers for being a part of this event and for being open with their experiences.
Angelique Johnson, CEO and Founder, MEMStim, LLC
Pang Hartman, Vice President, Creative Director & Lead Designer, FrogDice
Meghan Marsac, Program Lead, Cellie Coping Kit for Children
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OTC has created a Mentor-in-Residence (MIR) program to deploy subject matter experts (mentors) to assist us in coaching and advising UK innovators on turning their technology into viable businesses, products or services.
This is a wonderful opportunity to get involved and mentor UK innovators.
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OTC ANNOUNCES NEW STARTUP LICENSE PROGRAM
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OTC has developed the UK Startup License Program, a streamlined process to support the transfer of intellectual property from the university to startups prepared to commercialize the technology.
This program is part of our continuing efforts to support entrepreneurship.
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Ian McClure, executive director, presented a breakout session on
Best Practices for Intellectual Property Development, Commercialization, and Faculty/Student Startups
at the 26th NSF EPSCOR National Conference in Columbia, South Carolina
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Sabrina Darnell, intellectual property/compliance coordinator, presented at AUTM's 2019 Compliance Course in Bethesda, Maryland. She is co-chair of the Compliance Course Leadership Team, and a member of the Agreement Maintenance Course program committee.
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Ian McClure presented on the services and programs that OTC offers during the Orientation to Research for New Faculty. It was great to meet so many new faculty and have the opportunity to inform them on how OTC can help them.
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OTC presented at the VPR Lunch & Learn on
Patent 101: How Do You Know if Your Research Has Commercial Potential and What To Do When You've Got a Hunch
. Panelists included Dr. Josh Werner from the College of Engineering, Dr. Rob Lodder from the College of Pharmacy and chair of the Intellectual Property Committee, and Dr. Carrie Shaffer from College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
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BY THE NUMBERS
September 2019
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UK IP LICENSING DEALS
Enepret, Inc.
Joseph Chappell, David S. Watt, Timothy P. Devarenne, Scott Kinison, Thomas D. Niehaus, Shigeru Okada, Shuiqin Wu
Pusan National University College of Nursing
Nora Warshawsky
University of Kansas
Nora Warshawsky
Wild Dog Physics, LLC
Janelle Molloy
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The UK Office of Technology of Commercialization is partnering with the Commonwealth Commercialization Center (C3), the University of Louisville (UofL), the Louisville Entrepreneurship Acceleration Partnership (LEAP, the Louisville HealthCare CEO Council and Techstars on Founder Hunt, which connects research-backed technologies with startup founders who want to build a company around the technology.
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Thursday, October 31, 4:00 p.m.
Kentucky Capitol Rotunda
700 Capital Avenue, Frankfort, KY
*Watch the live stream by clicking the link above
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Every Wednesday, 7:00 a.m.
DV8 Kitchen
867 S Broadway #140, Lexington, KY
No RSVP necessary
Wednesday, November 6, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
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November 7--8
Embassy Suites Lexington/UK Coldstream
1801 Newtown Pike, Lexington, KY
Friday, November 8, 1:15 - 2:45 p.m.
Chemistry-Physics Building, Room 114 A/B
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
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DON'T MISS GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK LEXINGTON (GEWLEX)!
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Global Entrepreneurship Week Lexington (GEWLEX) will be November 18-24! OTC is proud to be an organizer along with Awesome Inc, Base 110 and Commerce Lexington Economic Development.
GEWLEX is a week-long series of events that focuses on entrepreneurs, innovators, and startups in Lexington. Whether you are new to entrepreneurship or looking to innovate in your current job, these events and speakers can help you do that.
Check out the website for all the great events being offered during the week, and make sure to join us for the events OTC is hosting and co-hosting.
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We are excited to announce a new NIGMS funding opportunity through our NIGMS STTR Technology Transfer Accelerator Hub grant called “Southeast XLerator Network” (PI Ian McClure, UK Office of Technology Commercialization), aimed at supporting pilot projects to advance innovations by quickly and clearly demonstrating whether a technology or product is worthy of moving through the commercialization process. I2P ("Ideas to Products") is the name of the program.
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FY 2020 STATISTICS YEAR-TO-DATE
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