Maintaining any sort of advantage in today's marketplace is increasingly difficult, as competitors adopt one and others innovations. Intellectual Property can help you develop and sustain a competitive advantage, and many companies have programs to encourage R&D teams to produce patentable ideas.  But are you making the best business use of your patents?  What about patents that might be available to you? 

You may find that you have patents that aren't valuable to you, but may be interesting to another company.  Likewise, an outside firm may have technology available that meets your needs.  Technology transfer is the practice of finding, qualifying, and agreeing on terms to license IP between organizations.  

Effective technology transfer practices can help speed time to market, find new sources of revenue, and spur growth.  Many people find patents and other forms of intellectual property intimidating, but they are a valuable tool that all entrepreneurs, engineers, and product developers should be familiar with.  

Join Greg Hopper of Fuentek, LLC, the premier Intellectual Property management consultancy in North Carolina, as he uses examples from corporate, university, and government clients to:  

• Maximize the commercial value of patents.
• Use the US patent database to gain competitive market intelligence.
• Use technology transfer to achieve your business goals.