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More About Technology Transfer
- If you believe you have invented, created, or discovered a useful product or service, please contact the Office of Technology Transfer. You can initiate contact with us by filling out the UNLV Research Disclosure Form (formerly known as the UNLV Invention Disclosure Form) and emailing it to the Office of Technology Transfer. You may also ask the Office of Technology Transfer to help you complete the form.
- If appropriate, the Office of Technology Transfer will evaluate your invention by means of a preliminary business assessment, a preliminary patent search, and a confidential expert review process. In consultation with you, we will analyze how your invention or discovery could be produced, marketed, and sold. We consider your input integral in this evaluative process.
- If the Office of Technology Transfer, in consultation with the dean of your college and with approval from the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, determines that UNLV will seek to participate in the commercialization of your intellectual property, we will then pursue legal protection for it. Otherwise, the rights to the idea will be formally returned to you.
- Again, assuming approvals from all relevant parties – and with your active involvement – the Office of Technology Transfer will coordinate the development of a business plan that identifies the most likely commercial partners.
- We then work to market the idea to potential partners. Successful negotiation with the private sector could result in one or more license or sale agreements.
- Revenues and equity holdings arising from such agreements are managed by the UNLV Research Foundation, which, according to UNLV Intellectual Property Policy, distributes a large percentage of the net income to the inventors and their departments.
- The UNLV Research Foundation monitors its equity holdings and the performance of its licensees to ensure that all is being done to effect productive dissemination of UNLV’s discoveries and technologies.
Contact Us
For more information regarding technology transfer issues for faculty, please contact:
Dr. Robert Sweitzer
Director
UNLV Office of Technology Transfer
RAB 106
Email: robert.sweitzer@unlv.edu
Phone: 895-5082
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