Auburn OTT News
2012
- Professor’s vaccine platform gives immune systems a boost (posted 11/28/12) | OA News story (posted 11/30/12) | WRBL news story (posted 11/30/12)
- Auburn's Studio+Build Program featured in Engineering News Record (posted 11/1/12)
- Auburn technology could revolutionize rendering industry (posted 7/11/12)
- 7/12 Seminar: NSF I-Corps Funding (Hosted by Auburn's NAI Chapter) (posted 7/5/12)
- Auburn part of $2.5M grant for antimicrobial discovery research (posted 4/23/12)
- OTT Releases FY 2011 Annual Report (posted 2/6/12)
- Building Science / Industrial Design inventive collaboration highlighted on Auburn University Research website (posted 1/20/12)
- Auburn/UA carbon nanotube technology featured in Birmingham News (posted 1/17/12)
2011
- National Academy of Inventors to hold Inaugural Annual Conference at the University of South Florida in Tampa, February 16 & 17, 2012 (posted 12/15/11)
- TNG Pharma named GEW 50 elite start-up by Global Entrepreneurship Week (posted 11/15/11)
- OTT announces workshops on Inventor Portal: OTT will present four workshops on the benefits of its new Inventor Portal, which provides inventors access to a secure website that will perform multiple tasks. Sessions will also include overviews of OTT, intellectual property and the commercialization process. The workshop schedule features four sessions:
- Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in 112 Thach Hall
- Friday, Nov. 11, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in 158 Cary Hall
- Monday, Nov. 14, from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. in 158 Cary Hall
- Tuesday, Nov. 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in 305 Parker Hall
Each session will include 30 minutes for questions and follow-up. Additional workshops could be scheduled as needed, or may be scheduled for given departments or colleges upon request. For more information, please contact us at 4-4977 or ottinventor@auburn.edu. (posted 11/9/11)
- Update on OcuMedic: making eye drops a thing of the past (posted 11/9/11)
- Auburn designed & tested waste processing technology sees in-state groundbreaking (posted 10/20/11)
- Auburn licensee Kennon Products and Auburn professor Gwen Thomas featured on South Dakota TV news segment for anti-ballistic technology (posted 7/29/11)
- The Auburn University Office of Technology Transfer is now on Twitter (posted 7/19/11)
- Auburn researchers pass milestones for patents, license agreements (posted 7/19/11)
- Dr. Vitaly Vodyanoy named "superhero" for optical microscope invention (posted 6/29/11)
- Inventors inducted into Auburn chapter of National Academy of Inventors (posted 6/3/11)
- New Business Incubator Launched in Auburn Research Park (posted 5/13/11)
- Auburn team IPC Foam takes third place in 2011 Alabama Launchpad business plan competition (posted 5/5/11)
- HaloSource signs first supply agreement for a finished device (posted 5/4/11)
- Business plan based on Auburn vaccine technology wins $640,000 at world's largest and richest competition (posted 5/2/11)
- Auburn-developed chestnut trees to debut on the market this fall (includes video) (posted 4/29/11)
- Student team wins two business plan competitions based on Auburn vaccine technology (posted 3/16/11; updated 3/22/11)
- John Wu's cyber security research (licensed to Aunigma Network Solutions) was featured in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of the Auburn Engineering Magazine (posted 3/10/11)
- 2010 was a banner year for patents in Alabama (AP article) (posted 1/4/11)
2010
- Modular Carpet Recycling was featured in the Fall/Winter 2011 issue of the Auburn Engineering Magazine. (posted 12/9/10)
- The Office of Technology Transfer announced the installation of an advanced software system to significantly increase effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of technology transfer operations. The new campus-wide system will provide increased emphasis on the business of bringing research to market and active marketing of the university's diverse set of innovations and creative works. Sophia Knowledge Management System is a web-based platform customized for each university to manage invention disclosures, intellectual property and business development activities. OTT will begin the Sophia roll-out process on campus soon with training sessions for points of contact in departmental and deans' offices, and with faculty inventors. The campus roll-out is expected to continue for several months to reach each department. (posted 11/29/10)
- HaloSource goes public with Auburn University antimicrobial technology (posted 11/18/10)
- Auburn establishes chapter of National Academy of Inventors (posted 10/5/10)
- OTT announces a license agreement with Masada on technologies developed in the Department of Chemical Engineering under a research agreement (posted 6/17/10)
- OTT was featured in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of the Auburn Engineering Magazine (posted 6/16/10)
- OTT has posted summaries of selected business plans of unlicensed Auburn University technologies (posted 6/15/10)
- Auburn start-up company MCR has opened its first plant in Delaware, with full scale operations expected in the Fall of 2010 (posted 6/14/10)
- The OTT FY2009 Annual Report is now available online (posted 5/27/10)
- Auburn lands a team in the finals of the 2009-2010 Alabama Launchpad Business Plan Competition. Construction Solutions is a proposed start-up company based on inventions stemming from a collaborative class between Industrial Design and Building Science. This success exemplifies Auburn’s increased focus on start-up activity and local economic development, representing the first time that OTT has initiated the creation of a Launchpad plan and a full team from scratch. (posted 4/6/10)
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