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Office of Technology Commercialization
Office: EINNV 1.168
Phone: (956) 665-3032
Phone Alt: (956) 665-3205
Email: otc@utrgv.edu
Office of Technology Commercialization
To accelerate the transition of Intellectual Property (IP) from the University to a product. UTRGV's Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) assists faculty, staff, and students in enabling industrial research partnerships, IP protection/management, proof-of-concept development, new venture incubation, and entrepreneurship training.
Duties of this office:
- Ensure compliance and data reporting for federally-funded research, to UT System, and industry.
- Providing training for faculty, students, and community related to intellectual property policy and processes, compliance requirements, copyright, and patent law and license strategies. To request in-person training, please email otc@utrgv.edu.
- Invention and software disclosure processing.
- Evaluation, patenting, copyright registration, marketing, and licensing.
- Processing of agreements for potential licensees.
- Material transfer, non-disclosure, data use, technology licenses, Patent and Software licenses, option, inter-institutional, and royalty sharing.
- Audit of licensees and royalty compliance.
- Assist in the creation of startups.
- Industry outreach and partnership development.
- Represent UTRGV at Texas Venture Connect.
