Indicator 9.8
Number of Active Licenses, 1997-98 to 2007-08
A license agreement grants a licensee access to a university's invention in exchange for the licensee's commitment to further develop and commercialize the invention. Utility licenses cover processes, machines, manufactured items and compositions of matter. Plant licenses cover sexually and asexually reproduced plant varieties.
The graphs show the number of licenses in effect at the end of each fiscal year. Each year new agreements are added to the portfolio and some expire or are terminated. In general, the total number of agreements continues to rise each year due to an increase in activity with industry.
Examples of commercialized products arising from UC inventions include Hepatitis-B vaccines, implants for the treatment for intracranial aneurysms, the nicotine patch, diagnostics for human cancer, AIDS virus diagnostics, web browser applets and plug-ins and several internationally distributed varieties of strawberries.
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Source: UCOP Office of Technology Transfer. Additional information about Tech Transfer can be found at http://www.ucop.edu/ott/.
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