Technology transfer offices come to us when they need prosecution capacity, an independent second opinion, or counsel that understands how university inventions move from disclosure to license or spinout — without big-firm overhead or conflict friction. Two of our attorneys worked inside a university tech transfer office, and another went on to lead one as its Associate Director, so we know the budgets, the deadlines, and the realities of working with faculty and student inventors.
We prepare and prosecute applications under your direction and templates when disclosures arrive faster than your office can file — per-matter or ongoing, with your naming conventions and reporting cadence.
Independent review of claim strategy, office-action responses, or whether a case is still worth its maintenance fees as a license prospect cools or sharpens. A fresh set of technically trained eyes, engaged matter-by-matter.
We help you decide what to file, what to abandon, and what to keep paying on, and we take assignment of files from prior counsel and rebuild the docket before deadlines come due. How transfers work →
We run invention-capture sessions with faculty and graduate researchers and train inventors on writing useful disclosures — the approach behind our book Protecting Innovation: The Corporate Innovator's Guide to Patents, our disclosure email course, and the Completing an Invention Disclosure and Selecting a Product Name courses at protectivityinfo.com.
Chain-of-title cleanup, freedom-to-operate questions, and transaction support coordinated with your licensing team and outside startup counsel.
You work directly with the responsible attorney. We manage overhead deliberately, provide estimates before work begins, and carry fewer conflicts than full-service firms.
Both Kyle Coleman and Brian Owens worked at the University of Wyoming Technology Transfer Office while they attended law school, so we understand tech transfer from the inside — the disclosure pipeline, the Bayh-Dole obligations, the constraints of a public-institution budget, and the work of turning early-stage research into a filing worth licensing. Dana Rewoldt deepens that bench, having led a university technology transfer office as its Associate Director and served as in-house IP counsel, with particular depth in licensing, freedom-to-operate analysis, research agreements, and the biotechnology, germplasm, and chemical inventions university research so often produces. As an IP boutique, we keep overhead and staffing lean, which lets us deliver predictable value on cost-sensitive, high-volume dockets. We draft and prosecute with the downstream in mind — giving consideration to scrutiny in due diligence, licensing, and enforcement — and our team learns your portfolio and stays responsive as priorities shift. And because well-informed inventors make for stronger, more efficient filings, we put practical references directly in your inventors' hands.
Tell us what your office needs. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right fit.
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