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Services of Tech Transfer @ Northwestern

Tech Transfer offers a wide variety of services for both Inventors and our partners, including:

1. Educate Faculty, Students, and Staff on Matters Related to Intellectual Property, and its licensing
2. Evaluation of Technologies
3. Novelty and Prior Art Determination
4. Patent Strategy
5. Commercial Viability and Competitive Advantage
6. Business Development
7. Marketing Technologies
8. Assisting with Formation of Start-Up Companies
9. License Strategy and Negotiations
10. Management of Patent Filing and Prosecution
11. Monitoring License Compliance
12. Compliance with Federal Guidelines or Research Sponsors
13. Collection of License Revenue and Distribution to Inventors, Departments, and Schools
14. Joint Inventor Relations, Inter-and Intra-institutional
15. Monitoring Inventor Compliance
16. Negotiate Intellectual Property Terms in other Agreements