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Clients | Universities / Research Institutions

We help universities and research institutions transform ideas into revenue-producing assets, supporting both scientific endeavor and fiscal responsibility.

PPG’s team of attorneys, patent agents and scientific advisors offers extensive legal, scientific, and business experience to bolster the ability of Technology Transfer Offices to manage priorities and secure opportunities. We maintain close relationships with university technology managers worldwide, counseling many notable institutions in the acquisition, protection, and commercialization of their intellectual property.

Our vast experience in the tech transfer space, low overhead and balanced staffing strategies allow us to provide technology transfer offices with superior intellectual property legal services at competitive costs.  

We understand that universities and research institutions navigate a delicate balancing act between cultivating discoveries that serve the greater good, financing their development, and supporting the academic mission of their professors, researchers and students.

  • Evaluation
  • Protection
  • Licensing
Evaluation
What we do Evaluation Phase

Your technology transfer office operates in a continuous state of evaluation, discerning which inventions merit the considerable expense of patent prosecution. It is critical to have a process that exposes both patentability and commercial potential. While many tech transfer offices perform this analysis in-house, it helps to have a partner who understands the science and can provide valuable support.

PPG Helps You
  • Augment your team’s capacity to review and evaluate invention disclosures at scale.
  • Analyze the competitive IP landscape and conduct a whitespace analysis to determine areas of opportunity.
  • Conduct patentability analysis on technologies being considered.
  • Analyze the competitive IP landscape and conduct a whitespace analysis to determine areas of opportunity.
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Protection
What we do Protection Phase

Your science is developed and ready for protection, but it must have teeth to effectively safeguard your interests. You need a partner who can be trusted with the most important discoveries a university or research institution may have… a firm that will aggressively and relentlessly prosecute patent applications that capture the broadest possible scope and deliver maximum quantifiable value.

PPG Helps You
  • Draft, file, and prosecute US and PCT patent applications.
  • Coordinate prosecution of foreign patent applications.
  • Initiate trademark prosecution and counseling.
  • Prosecute patent applications that capture the broadest possible scope.
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Licensing
What we do Licensing Phase

You are ready to move your IP into the marketplace, and companies may already be showing interest. Licensing can be a complex, nuanced affair with multiple parties and competing interests. You need to know that prospective partners are a good fit, and that you are securing a fair and favorable return for the technology. Experience and well-honed instincts are crucial at this stage.

PPG Helps You
  • Leverage our industry connections to generate licensing and partnership opportunities.
  • Draft and negotiate confidentiality, licensing, option, partnership, material transfer, inter-institutional and commercialization agreements.
  • Position IP assets in the best light to attract companies looking to license your technology.
  • Coordinate patent filings with licensees to ensure that the IP covers the intended product(s).
We needed knowledgeable IP counsel from a law firm that had a deep understanding of new technologies in life sciences AND experience representing top level universities and research institutions. PPG exceeded our expectations on all fronts! They developed detailed IP strategies to consistently convert research from Yale’s labs into commercially profitable ventures. Today, these IP assets promote new medical technologies and improve health around the world.
  • Diane K. Harmon
    Director, Intellectual Property Administration
    Yale University Office of Cooperative Research
Technology
Technologies

Technologies

Our experience includes the successful protection of intellectual property in the following fields:

  • Biotechnology
  • Cellular & Molecular Biology
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Drug Delivery
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Pharmacology
  • Developmental Biology
  • Stem Cells
  • Biochemistry
  • Genetics
  • Neuroscience
  • Diagnostic Assays
  • Immunology
  • Physiology
  • Nanotechnology
  • Medical Devices