Stanford Technology Brainstorm Newsletter

Autumn 2006

• Taking Stock of Equity
• Start-Up Sampler
• Sensametrics: “Health” of Structures
• StrataGent Delivers
• KAI Pharmaceuticals: No Nonsense
• In Memoriam — Floyd Grolle

Winter 2006

• View from the Top: Interview with Arthur Bienenstock
• Licensee Spotlight: Congratulations to Tableau Software
• Selection of Licenses Granted by OTL in 2005
• OTL Fiscal Year 2004-2005 Numbers
• Inventor Portal Opens the Door to the Licensing Process
• Technology Spotlight: DNA Display — Evolving a Better Drug

Summer 2003

• OTL Honors the Inventors of Stanford’s Most Successful Inventions
• A Selection of Recent Licenses Granted by OTL
• Transfering Tech Transfer to Finland
• OTL 2001-2002 Fiscal Year Numbers
• Building the Marine Technology Alliance
• Technology Spotlight: Finnish Inventions

Spring 2002

• Companies Moving Stanford Technology to the Next Stage in 2001
• Selection of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• J. Sonja Uy: Newest Member of the OTL Family
• OTL 2000-2001 Fiscal Year Numbers
• In Other 2001 News…
• OTL Happenings…
• Technology Spotlight: Knocking Out Pollutants with Carbon-Based “Coke”

Autumn 2001

Special Edition: MBARI

• The Collaboration between OTL and The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
• A Selection of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• The History of MBARI and the Collaboration
• The Growing Technology Portfolio
• MBARI’s Mission and Goals
• Technology Spotlight: Bacteria Finally See the Light — Harnessing bacterial rhodopsin to produce energy

Spring 2001

• ICO: Same Mission, New Manager
• 21st Century Licensing: Ready to Sign?
• A Selection of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Director’s Perspective: Forming Lasting Relationships
• Benefiting from Partnership in Medical Imaging: A Special Initiative Between GE and Stanford
• Innovation in Biomedical Technology
• Technology Spotlight: Back in Control

Winter 2001

Special Edition: 2000 In Review

• New Millennial Beginnings (at OTL)
• Phenomenal Millennial start-ups (from Stanford)
• A Selection of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL 1999-2000 Fiscal Year Numbers
• New Entrepreneurial Undertakings

Autumn 2000

Special Edition: Copyright

• Copyright Primer
• When Stanford Retains Copyright
• Copyright Policy, As It Reads
• Using Copyright, Patents & Trademarks
• Celebrating Innovation: Fogarty Wins MIT-Lemelson Award; Scott, Gold Win Stanford Invention Challenge

Spring 2000

• Uniquely Google™
• Providing Industry with EPIC Access to Stanford’s Engineering IP
• A Selection of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Technology Spotlight: Microarray Data Analysis

Winter 1999-2000

• OptoBond™: The industry-bound bonding technology from Gravity Probe B
• New Fund To Fill the Research to Proof-of-Concept Gap
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• TONI: Transfer of New Ideas
• OTL 1998-1999 Fiscal Year Numbers
• New URL for the New Year!
• Technology Spotlight: Perfecting Composite Grid Structures

Autumn 1999

• Eating Away at Vascular Disease: Cooke Pharma & HeartBar®
• ICO Helps Bring Two Worlds Together
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Second Invention Challenge: Minimally Invasive System for Treatment of the Arthritic Knee
• Start-up Seminar
• Brainstorm now online!

Summer 1999

• Granulysin: A Powerful Agent to Eradicate Microbes
• Start-ups: A Few Points From the Initiated
• Anastomosis Invention Challenge
• Recently Issued U.S. Patents Available for Licensing from Stanford
• Start-up Seminar
• Technology Spotlight: Recall

Spring 1999

• OTL: By the Numbers
• The University-Industry Interface at Stanford
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Technology Spotlight: Immune System Adjuvent Helps Reverse Allergic Response

Winter 1999

• GENSCAN: A Powerful Tool for Gene Prediction
• The Ins and Outs of Patenting at Stanford’s OTL
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Celebrates Licensed Products and $61 Million
• Technology Spotlight: Track ’n Find

Autumn 1998

• Medical Device Network Promotes Ingenuity and Cooperation to Create New Tools for Doctors
• Funding: Making Ideas, People and Things Happen
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Fiscal Year ’97-’98 (Preliminary Figures)
• Notice Something Different??? Never Get Anything for Free???
• Technology Spotlight: New Technologies Incorporating CMOS

Summer 1998

• Brainstorm: Not Just Another OTL Newsletter
• Feature Presentation: Technology Spotlight
• SUTECH Trademark: Quality and Recognition

Spring 1998

• Splices of Life and So Much More: A Retrospective of 25 years on Recombinant DNA Cloning, Biotechnology and Technology Transfer
• Floyd Grolle, Renaissance Man
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Glennia Campbell, Industrial Contracts Officer

Autumn 1997

• Genetic Footprinting Making Its Mark
• OTL's Homepage Gets a Facelift and Adds Some Features
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Staff Gets Hooked Up to the Stanford Phone System
• Nifty Fifty Festivities for OTL
• OTL Fiscal Year 1996-97 (Preliminary Figures)

Summer 1997

• Yamaha and Stanford Make Beautiful Music Together
• Informational Sessions
• The Big 5-0!
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Staccato Systems Bursts onto the Sondius-XG™ Scene
• OTL Hires Two More Associates to Help With Growing Caseloads

Spring 1997

• A Device to Warm Your Body as Well as Your Mind
• The Litton Project: Far from Manhattan
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Editor's Note
• OTL Fiscal Year 1995-96

Autumn 1996

• “Amati Phone Home” – Cioffi Sending Clear, Strong Signals
• Transplant Drug Hoping for Tolerance in Patients, Market
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Fiscal Year 1995-96 (Preliminary Figures)

Summer 1996

• OTL Turns 25 But Doesn't Get a Break on Insurance
• Informational Sessions
• Stanford Has Designs on Licensing Historic Landmarks
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Fiscal Year 1994-95

Spring 1995

• “Father of Computer Music” Still Conducting Himself Well
• Stanford's First Return on Equity Feels Like a Million Bucks
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL’s Webbed Feat

Winter 1994-1995

• Inventions Based an GPS Putting OTL in a Better Position
• OTL Informational Meetings
• Billboard’s Top Ten Was Never This Complicated
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Fiscal Year l993-94 (Final Figures)

Autumn 1994

• Patient Encounters of the WiSE and Automated Kind
• Inventions that Could Help Millions Not Easily Licensed
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• OTL Fiscal Year l993-94 (Preliminary Figures)

Summer 1994

• OTL Launches Trademark for Sound Synthesis Technologies
• Bell Tolls for FM Patent, but Yamaha Sees ‘New Beginning’
• A Sampling of Licenses Granted by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Faculty, Board Approve Changes to Patent Policy

Spring 1994

• New Gene Therapy: Take Two Pills and Call Me Tomorrow
• The (Very, Very, Very) Little Refrigerator that (Still) Could
• License Agreements Signed by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Revenues from Equity to Go to Fellowship Fund

Winter 1993-1994

• CSL Hoping to Keep “Cocktail Party Problem” Hush Hush
• Finding Licensees: Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
• License Agreements Signed by OTL in the Last Quarter
• "Snake Skin™" May Find Its Way Into Your Heart
• OTL’s Fiscal Year 1992-93 in Numbers

Summer 1993

• “Giant Fish Tank Filter” Coming to a Gas Station Near You
• Phycobiliproteins Light the Way for Research, Diagnostics
• License Agreements Signed by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Uncle Leland Wants Your Biological Materials
• Notice to Department Heads

Spring 1993

• ARIM: From Nobel-Winning Science to Stanford Licensing
• Stanford’s Casper: Tech Transfer is a “Bodily Contact Sport”
• License Agreements Signed by OTL in the Last Quarter
• Seismoguard™ Licensed to Advanced Seismic Devices, Inc.

Winter 1992-1993

• The Long and Winding Road to Biotechnology Licensing
• OTL Has A New Address
• Kissel Gives, Gets
• “Stealing” from MIT
• OTL Fiscal Year 1991-92 (Final Figures)
• Communication is the “Key” for Hellman

Autumn 1992

• OTL Licenses “Waveguide Synthesis” to Sierra, Crystal
• An M.A. at OTL?
• Important Notice about the Software Distribution Center
• Business School Alumni Scrutinize OTL
• OTL Fiscal Year 1991-92 (Preliminary Figures)
• Licensing to Protect Stanford’s Good Name

Summer 1992

• OTL Licenses Interactive Videodisks for Education
• Mona Wan Joins OTL
• Stanford Studies Its Impact on Silicon Valley
• Benefits From Stanford Ignored in Controversy
• Patent Primer
• John Chowning: No Static At All, Just Good “Karma”

Spring 1992

• OTL has Dream Year, wakes up with sense of “Deja Ku”
• Editor’s Welcome
• Closing the Book on Falling Books
• OTL Loses Two Associates
• Sex is no Game, but Sexploration is
• Inventor Spotlight: Saunders “Optimizes” his time at Stanford
• Acknowledgements