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<span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Office of Technology and Management at the University of Pittsburgh is responsible for disclosing and managing all innovations and inventions.&nbsp; The process one follows to acquire intellectual property is as follows:</span></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meet with a group interested in pursuing a project</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Define the parameters of the project within the scientific group including:</span></span></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Product specifications</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Necessary collaborators</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposed budget</span></span></li></ul><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meet with the Office of Technology and Management to conduct relevant patent searches</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Determine whether the product is worth pursuing</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acquire funding for approved product</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Design and build a prototype</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bring prototype to TTC committee (group of legal experts)</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TTC committee makes a ruling on whether or not prototype is fit to patent</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submit patent application</span></span></li></ul>

*Meet with a group interested in pursuing a project*Define the parameters of the project within the scientific group including<span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: *Product specifications*Necessary collaborators*Proposed budget *Meet with the Office of Technology and Management to conduct relevant patent searches*Determine whether the product is worth pursuing*Acquire funding for approved product*Design and build a prototype*Bring prototype to TTC committee (group of legal experts)*TTC committee makes a ruling on whether or not prototype is fit to patent*Submit patent application pre-wrap;">At this point Pitt is new to the entrepreneurial world so the majority of effort in patenting the life science innovations and inventions has been through CMI and Coulter.&nbsp; However, CMI and Coulter are looking to from more concrete relations between the OTM, research laboratories, and the department of Bioengineering.&nbsp; We hope to cultivate a perpetual seed funding program to drive future life science innovation and invention.&nbsp;</span></span><div><br/></div>