About the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office

Services Offered

• Identification of inventions and other creations having commercial potential 
• Marketability
• Obtaining and maintaining intellectual property
• Technology transfer strategy development
• Marketing of Intellectual Property (IP)
• Licensing IP to new or existing companies
• License administration
• Facilitating formation of start-up companies
• Assistance on IP matters in general
• Outreach and training for faculty, staff and students

Vision

The Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office is charged with managing RIT’s intellectual property portfolio in a manner so as to:

• enhance the reputation of the Institute, its faculty, staff and students;
• support Institute efforts to ensure graduating students have been imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit and an applied understanding of IP;
• foster enhanced research interactions with the private sector;
• facilitate the transfer of RIT technologies for the use and benefit of society through technology licensing arrangements;
• generate additional research funds through leveraging the value of RIT’s intellectual property.

In five years RIT expects to have a campus-wide culture of managing and leveraging intellectual property for the benefit of the Institute, its faculty, staff and students. This will be evidenced by:

• a growing intellectual property portfolio;
• a process that encourages publishing while protecting intellectual property;
• enhanced research partnerships with industry, and;
• increasing transfers of intellectual property to the private sector via licenses to existing or new (start-up) companies.