In-house: new university patent pool will ease licensing efforts
Sources from Columbia University, Nantero and Viziv Technologies reflect on whether the University Technology Licensing Program will make licensing easier
Leading universities launch joint technology licensing program UTLP pools a subset of universities intellectual property portfolios in the areas of connectivity, autonomous vehicles, and data applications
January 15, 2021 - Fifteen of the country’s leading
research universities Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, the
University of Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton, SUNY
Binghamton, UC Berkeley, UCLA, the University of Southern California,
and Yale today launched University Technology Licensing Program LLC
(UTLP).
UTLP brings a subset of
intellectual property assets from within these universities’ patent
portfolios related to the physical sciences together for efficient
licensing, enabling interested tech companies to obtain licenses to
A group of 15 research universities will be setting up a patent licensing pool for technology covering autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things and large-scale data analysis after the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday that their plans included adequate competition safeguards.