Our administrative team at the Technology Licensing Office focuses on strategy, business operations, human resources, accountability, procurement, processes, SOPs and workflows across the organization to enable informed decision making.

Our commercialization team provides comprehensive guidance to faculty members from the pre-disclosure stage through to licensing. They  manage intellectual property on campus, engage with faculty, establish tangible property agreements, market technologies, foster industry relationships, and ultimately license various technologies.

Our innovation management team leads the evaluation of new disclosures from intake and onboarding, through assessment of the technology, market, and intellectual property. They also support development and commercialization through the Ascender Grant program, periodic reviews of active technologies, market research, and strategy development activity.

Our contracts team oversees the drafting, review and execution of all contracts and agreements for TLO, including licensing agreements, MTAs, DTAs , CDAs, VSAs, IIAs and DUAs. The contracts team also liaises with the Conflict of Interest Office, the Office of Sponsored Projects, and the Office of General Council on behalf of TLO.

The intellectual property team manages the patent, copyright and trademark portfolio for the University of Utah. They serve as the TLO liaison with external patent counsel, develop intellectual property strategies to support commercialization and direct patent filing and prosecution for university owned technologies. The team also works with licensees to maintain patents and address intellectual property related legal concerns. 

Our license and government compliance team works directly with our licensees to ensure agreements remain in compliance. They also have a thorough knowledge of government regulations like 37 C.F.R. (Bayh Dole). The team tracks all disclosures claiming funding from the government and/or foundations and maintains the reporting required by both.

Our finance team is passionate about supporting the commercialization of cutting-edge research and development. They provide comprehensive financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, royalty distribution and reporting, while working to maximize the return on investment for our partners.

Our business and data analytics team is responsible for developing, implementing and managing data analytics capabilities while supporting quantitative and qualitative decision making.

Our marketing and communications team oversees innovation events, press releases, startup and faculty news as well as generates success stories.