Who are the some of the smartest experts in the innovation ecosystem most entrepreneurs don't even know exist?

Why is it fatal to your startup to talk about your big scientific breakthrough too soon?

How can you as a founder get the best of both worlds in bringing your discovery or invention to market for great outcomes?

In this episode, Laleh Shayesteh, Director of Intellectual Property and Administration in the Office of Technology Licensing at UC Berkeley, talks about how how university-based science and technology entrepreneurs can proactively protect their valuable research, successfully bring their discoveries to market, maximize the return on their work while still leveraging deep resource networks, and much more.

Episode Highlights

1. What is tech transfer?
2. How tech transfer works for different types of intellectual property
3. The one thing research-driven founders must do before publishing their work
4. How university tech transfer offices(TTO's) are structured and why that matters to founders
5. How your university TTO measures the success of IP
6. A quick overview of the US patent framework
7. Is your IP yours? Or your university's? How to find out.
8. How to leverage your university's TTO in your startup
9. The many ways you can commercialize IP
10. What to know about licensing and royalty agreements and why that matters
11. Staying compliant with your licensing agreement - the essentials
12. How university TTO's differ from VC's and why it matters to founders
13. The real value and significance of filing for patents
14. Tips for non-university affiliated tech founders on protecting your IP