April 8, 2004
Licensing and distributing software and information products
The next program in the series “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations, will be at noon, Wednesday, April 14, in Turner Auditorium, room D-209 in the Health Sciences Building. The program is free and open to all faculty, staff and students.
“UW Models for Managing, Distributing and Commercializing Data, Code and Other Materials” will feature three speakers, including Dr. Susan Wray, director of the Office of Industry Relations.
Dr. Charles Williams, director of digital ventures for the UW Office of Technology Transfer, and Dana Bostrom, software licensing officer in the same office, will talk about what the UW has been doing to effectively distribute software and other information products. In fiscal year 2003, UW Technology Transfer received more than $3.6 million from licensing software and information holdings.
Williams and Bostrom will discuss methods to validate software, strategies to atttract an audience and gain what they call “adopters,” and methods to set up licensing programs. They will also answer audience questions. For more information on the series, contact Vee White at veewhite@u.washington.edu
