Licensing, Tech Transfer, Patent Management
David J. Glass, Ph.D. Representative Experience

Almost 15 years of academic technology transfer experience. Negotiated over 100 license and option agreements, over 100 sponsored research agreements, numerous other agreements with biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and other companies.

Currently managing all licensing and industrial relations for McLean Hospital, an internationally known psychiatric hospital, and the Joslin Diabetes Center, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School. These responsibilities include preparation of invention descriptions, marketing of inventions to industry, and negotiating license agreements and other technology transfer agreements, working onsite at each institution on a part-time basis. Also assisting other academic medical centers with various technology transfer tasks.

Direct experience negotiating license, sponsored resarch, and other agreements with the University of Georgia, on behalf of Applied PhytoGenetics. Inc. Also currently advising several small biotechnology companies on academic relations (e.g., with their founding institutions).

Extensive international experience includes negotiations with, and liaison to, licensing partners in Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Canada, and other countries.

Fifteen years of experience as a consultant in assisting North American, South American and European companies locate and contact potential international partners for environmental technologies.

Experienced in identifying potential licensees of academic biomedical technologies and liaison to corporate research sponsors and potential licensees.

Patent Management

Currently managing intellectual property programs  for two Harvard Medical School-affiliated academic institutions, McLean Hospital and Joslin Diabetes Center.

Managed an academic patent portfolio of over 300 pending U.S. applications at Massachusetts General Hospital, including extensive liaison to numerous outside patent firms. Reviewed inventions (up to 150 per year) in molecular biology, medical devices and other fields, decided which to file for patent protection. Supervised the work of other professionals in patent management and licensing.

Nine years of experience in industry managing intellectual property. Prepared or supervised preparation of over 50 U.S. patent applications, most with foreign counterparts, many of which resulted in issued U.S. and foreign patents. Currently helping two corporate clients manage their patent portfoilos.

Extensive experience supervising and guiding work of outside patent counsel; intimate familiarity with over a dozen law firms in Boston, Washington and elsewhere with biotechnology or medical device expertise.

Developed corporate policies for invention disclosures, notebook-keeping, trade secret protection, biological materials transfer and scientific publications.

Experience with patent office prosecutions and interferences, strategic analyses of competitor's patents, and infringement analyses.

Trained and supervised two Ph.D. biologists to be corporate patent liaisons, both of whom later passed the patent agent's exam and are now running patent programs at biotechnology firms. Supervised and trained three other individuals within an academic technology transfer setting.

General

Ph.D. in molecular biology, almost 25 years experience in biotechnology, biomedicine and related fields.

Member, Licensing Executives Society, Association of University Technology Managers.

Co-founder, former president of Massachusetts Biotechnology Council; former member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council; other trade association activities.

Several presentations and workshops on technology transfer, intellectual property protection.

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