Word: patentable
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Harvard missed the chance to file a basic patent on the process of developing black silicon. When the scope of the discovery’s applications became clear in the year that followed that meeting, the University scrambled to patent a more narrow application of the process. It is not clear how much money Harvard forfeited...
Building on a series of reforms that began two years ago, a University-wide committee recently completed a comprehensive review of the policies that govern how scientists here patent their research. Provost Steven E. Hyman says the current policies are “outdated...
...make sure it doesn’t miss a chance to commercialize a big breakthrough again, OTD is now filing more “provisional” patent applications on professors’ inventions...
...provisional” process protects Harvard’s intellectual property rights, enabling the inventor to begin discussing the discovery openly and allowing OTD to start shopping the invention to potential licensees. It gives the University and the inventor a year to decide whether to pursue a full patent application. Associate Professor of Pathology Karl Münger says that applying for a provisional patent takes “30 minutes...
When SiOnyx, a company co-founded by Mazur, negotiated a licensing agreement with Harvard over the narrower black silicon patent, the process was a trying...