UW TechTransfer is the University of Washington’s technology transfer office.  Our job is to protect and manage intellectual property arising from UW research, and to license intellectual property rights to industry for the ultimate benefit of people.  One of our primary goals is to catalyze the creation of new companies based on UW technologies.

What is technology transfer?

The formal technology transfer process captures intellectual output from UW research and attaches appropriate intellectual property rights so that UW inventions, copyrighted works and technical information may be licensed to companies or used directly by the public. At the UW, we view technology transfer as another way the university “teaches” the public about research discoveries so that UW innovation can be adopted more broadly by society.

Bringing innovation to the marketplace

Licensing of UW innovation helps meet the university’s mission to teach broadly and promote economic development.  Licensing provides the contractual framework to ensure that the investment needed to bring UW innovation into the marketplace actually occurs and that reinvestment of resources from licensing refuels UW’s teaching and research mission.

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