Who are we?
The Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization is a service organization prepared to assist any student, staff, or faculty interested in moving their ideas and innovations into beneficial applications with societal impacts. We provide support on the process for patenting and licensing innovations and helping you understand your intellectual property rights. Our team members can be found here. Questions can be sent to uaf-oipc@alaska.edu or call us at (907) 474-2605.
We travel! Want us to present at your departments retreat, monthly meeting, for a club or other UAF/UAS organization? We'd be happy to talk Intellectual Property FAQs. We are here to serve you, so reach out!
Academic discoveries are transferred to industry through technology transfer, a collaborative process enabled by the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which allows universities to retain patent rights on federally funded research to license discoveries for public and commercial benefit.
Numerous professors, students, and staff have participated in the Tech Transfer process. You can see current licensable innovations here.