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Sagar Nadimpalli
Technology Commercialization Analyst
A Career in Intellectual Property as a
Biomedical Engineer
BioE Career Areas
Industry
Medical Devices
Clinical R&D
Diagnostics
Therapeutics
Research
Intellectual Property
BioE Career Areas
Professional
Medicine
Dentistry
Pharmacy
Law
Patent Law
Academia
BioE Career Areas based on your degree
Credentials
BS
Industry
Professional
Entrepreneurship
Government
MS
Industry
Professional
Entrepreneurship
Government
Credentials
PhD
Industry
Entrepreneurship
Government
Professional
MD/PhD
JD/PhD
Academia
Postdoctoral then Faculty Appoint
BioE Career Areas based on your degree
Concentration Areas
Important that you expose and go outside of your regular familiarity to be able to work out there as a biomedical engineer! Take myself for example
Cell and Tissue Engineer but really work as a clinical engineer for my master’s degree
This takes more than just C&T
o Computer Programming
o Imaging
o Bioinstrumentation
o Biomaterials
o Entrepreneur/Industrial coursework
o Neural networks (for image processing purposes)
How would you define your career?
BEING CREATIVE!
Intellectual Property [IP]
A snapshot into the world of IP
What is it?
Establishing recognizable rights to any creation
by an individual
Consists of the following:
Patents
Trademarks
Copyrights
Trade Secrets
Why should you do it as a BME?
Provides awareness and exposure to emerging
start-up technologies and/or companies which
deal with biomedical engineering
Gains insight and experience of using appropriate
problem-solving and assessing skills as a
biomedical engineer to determine usefulness,
novelty and/or obviousness of a disclosed
technology
Example - http://otm.uic.edu/technologies/early-
extraction-fetal-heart-sounds
What would HR look for an IP applicant?
Skills in the following: Literature search
Patent Searching
Good scientific/engineering background Its not just about the good grades and coursework exposure
Go out there and get your feet wet with experience!
Problem solver, being analytical
Technical Writing
Depends on how far you choose to go!
Tech-savvy
An understanding of how the medical industry works
My job at OTM As a Technology Commercialization Analyst, I….
Screening disclosed inventions for potential opportunity and assessment through the review of current work in the field
In parallel of the review, interviews are conducted by the Tech. Manager with the inventor and team
A cumulative assessed report is produced by the screener (me) to provide for my Manager to present for the OTM team
Additional Projects Marketing Faculty Outreach
Final Thoughts
If this information sounded great and interesting
and you wish to learn more, all of you have a
great opportunity coming up
Friday March 22nd at noon (Location: TBA) – BioE
seminar about OTM and the career area of patents
by Jennifer Andrew JD (my manager)
OTM Team
OTM Team
Contact Info
For IP and OTM related questions:
For BioE as a career and other BME info:
Q&A Session
