IP AWARENESS ASSESSMENT TOOL
The IP Awareness Assessment Tool allows participants to assess their awareness of intellectual property concerns. Upon completion, participants receive customized training material.

TRADEMARK HOTLINE
Phone: 1-800-786-9199 (select option #1)
Hours: 8:30a.m. - 8:00p.m. Monday – Friday (except federal holidays)
Email: TrademarkAssistanceCenter@uspto.gov
Call or E-mail the Patent and Trademark Office for general questions about the trademark process or for guidance on the type of information to include on a form. Remember to provide your telephone number and the relevant serial or registration number. For questions in more specific areas, follow the link for a list of further contacts.

Boston University Office of Technology Development

Boston University is one of the nation's top research universities with $400M in funding, 400 patents granted, and many success stories in both licensing and new ventures. We're active in a variety of fields from LEDs to weight sensors. OTD's overall mission is to encourage, educate and enable the BU community to realize the commercial potential of their ideas.

Our activities include patenting and licensing, mentoring, and funding for research, new ventures, and translational awards.

We strive to be industry-friendly and minimize the barriers in applying our research and invention to successful commercial projects.

We're excited to be on AutoHarvest to find new opportunities to collaborate. Please take a look at our listing (Center of Weight Sensor for Airbag Deployment) and get in contact.

EmiSense develops next-generation emissions sensors, combining technical ceramics and advanced signal processing. Smart sensors are the critical enablers for ultra-efficient clean combustion and energy. EmiSense leverages a unique patent portfolio, domain-specific expertise, and global manufacturing capacity to provide proprietary components to strategic partners around the world.

The first two products in the EmiSense development roadmap are PMTrac® and NOxTrac®. PMTrac® is a novel electrostatic particulate matter sensor that delivers a real-time signal for DPF failure detection. The underlying technology is not only more sensitive than competing approaches, but also offers advantages in long-term durability. NOxTrac® is a low-cost durable NOx sensor leveraging sophisticated signal processing along with simplified co-fired ceramics.

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is a Department of Energy national laboratory focused on developing clean, reliable, and affordable fossil fuel energy systems and next generation power plants. NETL implements a broad spectrum of energy and environmental research and development (R&D) programs that will return benefits for generations to come.

As a federal laboratory, NETL welcomes the opportunity to transfer federally funded technology to industry, entrepreneurs, and other agencies. NETL's technology portfolio contains a broad range of innovations that have resulted from research in areas such as carbon capture and sequestration, mercury capture, fuel cells, sensors and controls, computational modeling, and materials science, among many others. NETL technologies posted on AutoHarvest include an improved martensitic steel alloy and a fuel cell hydrocarbon reforming catalyst.

U.Va. Innovation maximizes the impact of University of Virginia research discoveries by creating opportunities for University innovators and partners to advance these discoveries to the global community.

Launched in January 2012, this University-wide initiative:

• Accelerates the adoption of innovative U.Va. technologies in the market by cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with industry and other strategic partners
• Grows the local economy by providing U.Va. entrepreneurs with useful resources, guidance, mentorship and networks to launch innovation-based business ventures
• Facilitates research advances and the dissemination of knowledge by providing U.Va. researchers and their collaborators with the tools to protect and share their innovative discoveries

We have a diverse portfolio of patents and some of our current technologies available include:

STRUCTURES: lightweight, reversible shape memory alloy (no bias element required); 2-D or 3-D tube core topology structures (customizable elastic properties); stronger steel lattice structure by surface doping; strong and lightweight microcell materials

COATINGS: exceptionally durable "glassy steel" materials; low-cost corrosion resistant aluminum alloy coatings (no vacuum required)

MATERIALS: viscoelastic silicone rubber (exhibits time-dependent stiffness)

ELECTRONICS: MEMS actuator with greater force and range of motion

For more information, please visit www.innovation.virginia.edu or contact Matt Bednar, matt@uvapf.org.