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Session Title: Methods and Techniques for Analyzing, Measuring, and Valuing the Impact of Intellectual Property Assets: A Focus on Patents Derived From Federal Research Funding
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Panel Session 878 to be held in Centennial Section H on Saturday, Nov 8, 1:20 PM to 2:50 PM
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Sponsored by the Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation TIG
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| Connie Chang,
Ocean Tomo Federal Services,
cknc2006@gmail.com
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| Abstract:
Over the past three decades, intellectual property (IP) assets (i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets) have become an increasingly important component of industrial competitiveness in the world economy. The U.S. government occupies an extraordinarily powerful position within the IP marketplace through creating, managing, acquiring, regulating, issuing, and protecting IP. The billions of dollars the U.S. federal government spends to fund research and develop new technologies have led to the creation of new knowledge, new skills, new working relationships, and new products and services that have contributed to our nation's economic growth. This Panel offers attendees a look at how evaluators have used different methods and techniques to examine and analyze patents for the purpose of telling the story of a technology's trajectory, revealing patterns in technological relationships and the formation of emerging technology clusters, and ascertaining the commercial impact of research funding.
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Setting the Stage: Introduction to the Panel and General Overview
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| Connie Chang,
Ocean Tomo Federal Services,
cknc2006@gmail.com
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This presenter will provide an introduction to the panel and a general overview of the methods and techniques used to analyze patents that government agencies have employed for evaluation purposes. During her tenure at the Advanced Technology Program and later at the Technology Administration, she funded study contracts that explored how patents and co-citation of patents can be used as a forward looking indicator to reveal emerging technology clusters and worked on policy issues related to the measurement of intangibles. She is now working for a company, Ocean Tomo Federal Services, which provides innovative technology transfer services to government clients to help manage, commercialize, and monetize their intellectual capital, and analytical tools and methods to track knowledge diffusion, value the quality of knowledge created, and evaluate the economic impact of government-funded technologies.
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Evaluating the Impact of the United States Advanced Technology Program: What Can Patents Tell Us?
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| Ted Allen,
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
ted.allen@nist.gov
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The U.S. Advanced Technology Program provided funding to 824 high-risk, high payoff projects between 1990 and 2007. Companies have been granted nearly 1,500 patents based on the work performed in the ATP-funded project, and these patents have been cited by nearly 12,000 subsequent patents. The presenter is responsible for collecting data on ATP patents. He will share what ATP has learned from tracking patents and analyzing the impact of these patents.
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Identifying Emerging, High-Impact Technological Clusters: An Overview of a Report Prepared for the Technology Administration, United States Department of Commerce
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| Tony Breitzman,
1790 Analytics,
abreitzman@1790analytics.com
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The presenter will share findings from the Emerging Technological Clusters project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration. The project aimed to validate and further develop a sophisticated methodological tool based on patents, citations, co-citations, and clustering of patents, as well as visualization of inventor locations, that can identify emerging, high-risk, early-stage, technologically innovative activities. Such a tool could provide a greater understanding of how such clusters form; the types of organizations involved; the geographic location of the inventors; the line of research each organization is pursuing; the core technologies being built upon; the technologies that are currently being pursued; and an early indication of potential commercial applications that may result. The data that are captured could provide policymakers with a stronger analytical capacity from which to formulate policy experiments, options, or recommendations for action.
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Soup to Nuts: How NASA Technologies Got Transferred to the Marketplace via a Live Intellectual Property Auction
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| Darryl Mitchell,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
darryl.r.mitchell@nasa.gov
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The presenter will share his experience in bringing NASA Goddard technologies to the market using Ocean Tomo's Live Intellectual Property Auction as a complementary vehicle to the traditional commercialization activities of technology transfer offices.
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