Resources for Inventors
General Information About OTL

• Important Information
• Early Stage Interactions
• Research Funds

Important Information

• OTL Inventor's Guide
• How OTL Thinks About the Value of a License
• Patent Issues Facing Universities
• OTL and the Inventor: Roles in Technology Transfer
• Vical Research License
• Suggestions for Keeping Laboratory Notebooks
• Nontraditional Publications and Their Effect on Patentable Inventions
        by Todd E. Garabedian of Wiggin & Dana, LLP
• Protecting Your Ability to Get a Patent: What Counts as a Bar to Patenting?
        by Lita Nelsen, MIT, Technology Licensing Office
• How to Get Better Patents: Working with Your Patent Attorney,
       reprinted with the permission of Skjerven Morrill, LLP.
• Prior Art Searches
• The Patent Approach of Stanford's OTL
• Open Source at Stanford
• Bayh-Dole Regulations (37 CFR 401)

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Early Stage Interactions

• Invention Evaluation Checklist
• First Inventor Meeting Agenda

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Research Funds

Information on both internal and external funding opportunities for Stanford researchers can be found through the Research Management Group.

A portion of OTL's licensing income is distributed to The OTL Research and Graduate Fellowship Fund which is administered by the Dean of Research.

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