& Office of Patent Counsel
Patents and Pizza
Intellectual Property Seminar
4 October 2005
Office of Technology Transfer and
Office of Patent Counsel
& Office of Patent Counsel
Agenda
11:00
Welcome/Opening Remarks
Norma Lee Todd
11:05
OTT Performance Metrics
Wayne Swann
11:15
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Wayne Swann
11:20
Keynote Address
Lt. Gov. Michael Steele
11:45
Presentation of Patent Awards
Lt. Gov. Michael Steele
Wayne Swann
12:00
Lunch
& Office
Office of
of Patent
PatentCounsel
Counsel
&
APL Start-Up Companies
• BioConneXions, LLC – Fetal heart rate monitoring and
other anesthesia technologies
• Bio-Defense Research Group, Inc. – Developed PathAway™, and air-borne pathogen neutralization technology
• Link Plus Corp – integrated wireless modules which are
designed to allow customers to dramatically reduce their time
to market
• Nascent Medical Technologies, Inc. – JHU SOM
start-up company for bioimpedance measuring of the uterine
cervix
• Optemax, LLC – Free-space optical communications
15 NEW COMPANIES STARTED (53 new jobs created)
Technology Transfer Summary
45
43
AUTM - Average US Patents
40
APL - US Patents
35
31
30
25
23
22
22
22 22
20
20
20
17
14
15
14
12
12
10
10
5
5
5
4
5
2
0
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
Technology Transfer Summary
Performance Metrics
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6-Year Totals
Inventions
Licenses
Total US Patent Applications
Issued US Patents
Start-up Companies
Licensing Income (~$ Millions)
Associated R&D Funding (~$ Millions)
787
153
1012
132
15
17
10
Keynote Address
Maryland Lt. Governor
Michael S. Steele
Patent Awards
6,908,793
Method for Fabricating a
Semiconductor Device
Mark N. Martin
6,917,329
Flexible Architecture GPS
Receiver
J. Marsh Dougherty
6,927,577
Digital Nulling Pulse Inductive
Metal Detector
Carl V. Nelson
6,897,822
Spiral Resonator-Slot Antenna
Kenneth D. Sparks
Robert T. Soranno
6,898,459
System and Method for
Diagnosing Pathologic Heart
Conditions
Carleton S. Hayek
W. Reid Thompson, III
Joseph S. Lombardo
Lisa A. Blodgett
Charles B. Cooperman
6,909,324
High-Efficiency Solid State
Power Amplifier
Robert E. Wallis
Sheng Cheng
6,924,147
Method of Making A Polymeric
Food Spoilage Sensor
Craig A. Kelly
George M. Murray
O. Manuel Uy
6,930,298
Method and Structure for
Minimizing Error Sources in
Image and Position Sensing
Detectors
Kim Strohbehn
Mark N. Martin
6,931,166
Optical Sensor and Method for
Detecting Projectile Impact
Location and Velocity Vector
Leo R. Gauthier, Jr.
David G. Drewry, Jr.
Leroy Brunner
6,934,630
GPS Receiver Tracking System
Lloyd A. Linstrom
Dennis J. Duven
6,941,424
System, Method, and Computer
Program Product for High Speed
DMA-Based Backplane
Messaging
Paul R. Bade
Steven A. Kahn
David M. Verven
6,943,344
Microchannel Plate Detector
Assembly for a Time-of-Flight
Mass Spectrometer
Timothy J. Cornish
Scott A. Ecelberger