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<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span>

<li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li>

<li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Product specifications</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Necessary collaborators</span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposed budget</span></span></span></span></li>

<li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><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></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-69774ec0-2e5d-5abf-a9a6-2ae9ba54ca89"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submit patent application</span></span></span></span></li>

<span style="font-size:larger;"><span style="font-family: Arialgeorgia,serif; "><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2018, Pitt and the Innovation Institute helped facilitate the approval of 98 US Patents and 162 licenses. Since 2014 a total of 420 patents have been issued through Pitt.</span></span></span>