November 20, 2003
Things your mother never taught you:Success with patents and licenses
“Successful Biomedical Patents and Products” is the topic for the next presentation in the series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations. The program, which is free and open to everyone, will be from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 3, in Turner Auditorium, D-209, in the Health Sciences Center.
Speakers will be talking about both pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Some biomedical inventions can be successfully patented and developed into products, while others cannot.
Dr. Paula Szoka, direector of technology licensing at the UW, will speak on how decisions are made at the UW about which discoveries originating here should be patented and licensed.
Dr. Patricia Beckmann, an investment manager for Vulcan, Inc., in Seattle, will describe her own transition from academic research to her current position and how she advises venture capitalists on which patents and products to pursue.
Dr. Susan Wray, director of the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations, will give an overview of the successful biomedical product pipeline.
The next presentation in the series will be on Wednesday, Jan. 14, when the topic is “Working with Companies.”
