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IP of the Future A Caltech Perspective

Hannah Dvorak-Carbone, Ph.D. Associate Director, Office of Technology Transfer

Business of IP Asia Forum Hong Kong, December 5, 2013

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The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 6 academic divisions, with

• 978 undergraduate students

• 1,253 graduate students

• Over 600 research scholars

• About 300 professorial faculty

Faculty and alumni include

• 32 Nobel Laureates

• 57 National Medal of Science Recipients

• 13 National Medal of Technology Recipients

• 112 National Academies Memberships

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The Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

• Founded by Caltech in the 1930s and managed for NASA since 1958

• 23 spacecraft and 10 instruments employed in active missions

• Missions launched in 2011-12: Mars Science Laboratory, Juno, Aquarius, GRAIL, and NuSTAR

• More than 100 research and mission collaborations with Caltech faculty

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Chester CARLSON Xerox Machine 1940

Dr. Arnold BECKMAN pH meter

1936

Dr. Robert HALL Magnetron for Microwave oven and semi-conductor laser 1961

Dr. Leroy HOOD Automated DNA Sequencing 1986

Dr. Gordon MOORE Method for Fabricating Transistors 1963 Founder of Intel Corp.

Dr. Carver MEAD Leading force in very large scale integration (VLSI) design methodology 1976

Caltech inventors

Dr. Eric FOSSUM CMOS active pixel sensor “camera-on-a-chip” 1999

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UC System M.I.T. Stanford Wisconsin Caltech

$5.0B $696M $773M $1.0B $330M

Average research spend, FY07-11

Source: USPTO, NSF

Caltech has one of top 5 US university patent portfolios…

Total US patents issued, 2008-2012

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…covering diverse technical fields

Invention disclosures by academic division

Engineering andApplied Science

Chemistry andChemical Engineering

Biology and BiologicalEngineering

Physics, Math andAstronomy

Geological andPlanetary Sciences

Humanities and SocialSciences

As of August 2010

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Caltech’s tech transfer model

• Build trusting relationships with faculty

• Aggressively protect intellectual property

• Be industry-friendly

• Promote entrepreneurship

Little or no…

• Extensive technology valuation

• “Push” marketing

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A peek into the future…

Picture credits: Lulu QIAN, Hansuek LEE, Mazmanian lab, Guoan ZHENG, Jeff CHANG/Kaushik DASGUPTA

Winfree lab: Molecular programming

Vahala lab: Optical resonators

Mazmanian lab: Gut microbiome

Yang lab: Gigapixel imaging

Hajimiri lab: Self-healing circuits

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A peek into the future (continued)…

Scherer lab: Lab-on-a-chip

JCAP: Artificial photosynthesis

Picture credits: Scherer lab, JCAP, Wendian Shi , stock art

Tai lab: White blood cell monitoring

Bruck lab: Beyond flash drives

Yeh lab: High quality graphene