Technology Transfer and Licensing
Services Offered for Academic Institutions

D. Glass Associates (DGA) can assist academic institutions (universities, medical centers and research institutions) that are not large enough to maintain full-time tech transfer staff, by handling many tech transfer functions on a part-time basis. We can also help licensing offices that are temporarily short-handed due to staff turnover, maternity/paternity leave, etc. in assessing, markeing and licensing inventions and in negotiating a variety of tech transfer agreements.

DGA can help your institution in a number of ways. We can arrange to spend an agreed-upon number of hours a week working in your offices, handling a variety of ongoing tech transfer functions, being available onsite to your investigators and other staff. Alternatively, we could handle project-by-project work on an as-needed basis, working from your office or ours. DGA is also available for invention assessments and limited patentability searches, commercialization assessments, and special projects.

Services for Non-Profit Clients:

Technology Transfer, Licensing, and Industrial Relations

DGA can handle the gamut of technology transfer tasks for universities, academic medical centers and research institutions, including the following:

• Commercial assessments of new inventions.
• Preparation of marketing materials for new inventions, identify and contact potential corporate licensees.
• Draft and negotiate CDAs, license and option agreements for technologies to be licensed.
• Negotiate, or assist in negotiation of, sponsored research agreements, clinical trial agreements, material transfer agreements and other industry contracts.

Management of In-House Patents and Inventions

D. Glass Associates can assist academic instituitons with a variety of tasks relating to intellectual property protection, as follows:

• Monitor scientific developments at select laboratories to identify patentable inventions.
• Review and assess invention disclosures; recommend courses of action.
• Work with outside attorneys to review draft patent applications and facilitate attorney-inventor interactions.
• Help establish and implement intellectual property policies.
• Maintain databases of patent matters and track relevant deadlines.
• Provide strategic guidance and direction for ongoing patent prosecution.

Qualifications

David Glass has over 20 years experience with biotechnology intellectual property protection, having managed patent programs in academia and industry. Significant recent experience negotiating license, option, sponsored research agreements, and related agreements on behalf of a major Boston teaching hospital, where he has successfully negotiated over 100 license and option agreements and other technology transfer contracts.  Dr. Glass is currently handlling technology transfer on a part-time basis for two Harvard-affiliated institutions, McLean Hospital and the Joslin Diabetes Center, in addition to numerous other technology transfer consulting activities.

Please click here to view Dr. Glass's curriculum vitae.