The Technology Transfer Law Handbook

Published by the American Bar Association (ABA), The Technology Transfer Law Handbook is an invaluable resource for practitioners serving the technology transfer community, delineating the full scope of recent developments and how they affect technology transfer operations in unique and unexpected ways, as well as presenting new challenges and opportunities.

There have been an overwhelming number of changes that directly impact technology transfer activities at universities and medical schools, including enactment of the America Invents Act of 2011, recent court decisions such as Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services and Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., and modifications in regulations in the past two or three years.

The handbook covers a broad range of essential topics, including the following:

• Postgrant proceedings under AIA
• Managing patent prosecution
• Patenting diagnostic tests
• University patent enforcement
• Licensing of federally supported subject inventions
• Approaches to managing patent filing costs
• Biotech licensing
• The university as a venture investor