University of California System: University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) works with campus inventors to facilitate transfers of technologies created at UC Berkeley to the commercial sector for public use and benefit. The scope of OTL activities include: evaluating the commercial potential of new technologies, determining patentability, prosecuting patents, registering copyrights, marketing and licensing patents, tangible material, and software, negotiating license agreements, and receiving and distributing royalties and other income to the inventors, the UC Berkeley campus and its departments.

The Industry Alliances Office (IAO) works with UC Berkeley employees and companies to enable innovative research relationships and with offices across campus to streamline research agreement management and negotiation. The IAO is responsible for negotiating all research contracts dealing with private industry, including: sponsored research agreements, membership agreements, material transfer agreements, data/software transfer agreements, collaboration agreements.