15.115 - TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION SPECIALIST.
15.115 TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIALIZATION SPECIALIST.
The department shall ensure that businesses in the state are well
informed about the technology patents, licenses, and options
available to them from colleges and universities in the state and to
ensure the department's business development and marketing efforts
are conducted in a way that maximizes the advantage to the state of
research and technology commercialization efforts at colleges and
universities in the state. The department shall establish a
technology commercialization specialist position which shall be
responsible for the obligations imposed by this section and for
performance of all of the following activities:
1. Establishing and maintaining communication with personnel in
charge of intellectual property management and technology at colleges
and universities in the state.
2. Meeting at least quarterly with personnel in charge of
intellectual property management and technology commercialization
regarding new technology disclosures and technology patents,
licenses, or options available to Iowa businesses at colleges and
universities in the state.
3. Being knowledgeable regarding intellectual property, patent,
license, and option policies of colleges and universities in the
state as well as applicable federal law.
4. Establishing and maintaining an internet website to link other
internet websites which provide electronic access to information
regarding available patents, licenses, or options for technology at
colleges and universities in the state.
5. Establishing and maintaining communications with business and
development organizations in the state regarding available technology
patents, licenses, and options.
6. Cooperating with colleges and universities in the state in
establishing technology fairs or other public events designed to make
businesses in the state aware of available technology patents,
licenses, or options available to businesses in the state. Section History: Recent Form
2005 Acts, ch 150, §27
Referred to in § 15.117