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Marketing
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Monitoring
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Invention Disclosure The confidential invention disclosure provides us with the necessary information to understand your invention and to start reviewing background information. We will contact you latest within a week of receiving your disclosure.
Evaluation Your invention will be evaluated based on a set of criteria such as market potential, patentability, development stage, etc. The next steps will be discussed with you in a face-to-face meeting.
Patenting Drafting and filing of a patent application will be done in close collaboration with the inventors and with the assistance of a patent attorney. An invention can only be protected by a patent if it has not been published before.
Marketing Potential licensing partners are identified and engaged. Your contacts and support are crucial because no invention sells itself. Confidential information, data and prototypes required by the company are shared for evaluation purposes.
Licensing Negotiation of the financial, diligence and legal terms of a license agreement is a complicated and labor intensive process. Negotiations typically take several months.
Monitoring License agreements are monitored to ensure that licensees live up to their promise to develop and market products based on your technology and to ensure compliance with reporting, payment and other obligations. Auditing might be part of this step.
Spin-Off Company The technology might be developed and commercialized by a newly created spin-off company. For technologies that are at a very early developmental stage this might be the only realistic option.
Stop The evaluation or the later steps might show that the technology does not meet the requirements. In this case the commercialization efforts will be terminated.

Generating a benefit from the practical application of research results

Take advantage of Unitectra’s experience in the commercialization of research results. The diagram provides an overview of the main steps involved in the commercialization of inventions. The process similarly applies to other types of research results, such as software, biological material, etc.

Through licensing of technologies to suitable companies, relevant research results can be developed and launched on the market in the form of new products or services as broadly and quickly as possible. An established corporation or a newly created spin-off company may qualify as a business partner.

What kind of research results can be commercially exploited?

Anything that satisfies a commercially significant customer need has a potential market and can therefore be commercially exploited. Results achieved at university level can form the basis for the development of a final product. The business partner usually takes over the developmental part of the project. Newly discovered or newly made substances, novel technologies or any improvement or novel application of an existing product could be interesting for economic applications.

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Invention Disclosure Form Zürich (University and Hospitals)
Invention Disclosure Form Bern (University and Hospitals)
Invention Disclosure Form Basel (University and Hospitals)
Software Disclosure Form
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