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Fast Facts:
  
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 Activity Statistics for FY 2006-07
  
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Image: green bullett Invention Disclosures: 45 (ties second-highest rate in UO's history).  
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Image: green bullett Licensing revenue: $5.1 million (new record).  
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Image: green bullett Dollars re-invested in IP Development: $169,200  
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Image: green bullett Dollars distributed to UO inventors, departments, research and education programs: $4.9 million (new record).  
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Specific Tech Transfer activities include:
  
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Image: green bullett Pursues commercialization of UO discoveries.  
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Image: green bullett Supports UO researchers during project development.  
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Image: green bullett Maintains compliance with federal and state laws.  
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Creates new companies and contributes to local and regional economic development.
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  Mission:  
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The Office of Technology Transfer focuses on helping university inventions successfully make the transition from academia to the commercial marketplace. The office identifies promising early stage research with strong commercial potential;  brings in investors and support from corporate partners and moves aggressively to license inventions to an existing company or to a spin-off company for further product development.
  
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  Since FY92, the University of Oregon received more than 80 United States patents and numerous non-US patents. UO Research has given birth to scores of commercially marketed products, including monoclonal antibodies and other biomedical research tools; computer software for scientific research, for teaching, and just for fun; early-childhood support systems for use by schools and social workers; and even innovative furniture designs. The university's corporate partners are currently testing or developing a broad spectrum of UO inventions, ranging from potential cancer therapeutics to education methods to advanced thermoelectric materials.  The University of Oregon's researchers and staff have created a number of successful companies over the years, including Electrical Geodesics, a world leader in dense-array EEG acquisition and analysis; On Time Systems, a developer of innovative algorithms for scheduling complex tasks; and Just Write, a company that markets intelligent bridge-playing software; and sportswear giant Nike.  
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  See the OTT web site at: http://techtran.uoregon.edu/  
  For more information, contact Don Gerhart, Associate Vice President for Research and Innovation, and Director of the Office of Technology Transfer, at (541) 346-3234.  
     
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