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Article: Commercialization Of Intellectual Property In Hospitals.
- Article from:
- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- May 21, 2008
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Technology transfers and the commercialization of intellectual property in hospitals refers to, in a simplified model, the process through which ownership or license rights to inventions and other intellectual property developed by doctors and researchers flow to the hospital, and thereafter to third parties, in a commercially responsible manner.
Hospitals are wellsprings of intellectual property. It is not always as obvious as inventing an implantable neurostimulation system. Aside from the more obvious patentable inventions, there are software databases, processes, scientific or medical papers and findings, educational materials, trade-marks and ...