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The LLNL Industrial Partnerships Office (IPO), with its staff of scientists, engineers, attorneys, and entrepreneurs, is the conduit through which the Laboratory connects industry partners with Laboratory developed technologies. In addition to technology licenses, work for others agreements and CRADAs, the Laboratory offers several unique partnering arrangements. For example, IPO works with university entrepreneurship centers and business schools, making technologies available for students to use in business plan competitions. IPO also has an "entrepreneurs in readiness" program in which entrepreneurs searching for new opportunities are matched with LLNL technologies ready for commercialization.
IPO currently has active commercial licenses with more than 100 companies as well as dozens of active CRADAs. Licensing and royalty income in recent years has topped $8 million annually representing more than $300 million in annual sales of products based on LLNL technologies. LLNL licensed technologies have enabled the launch of numerous new businesses that are helping drive economic growth locally, regionally and beyond.
IPO in 2012
Invention Disclosures | 163 |
US Patent Application filings | |
Ordinary filings | 61 |
Continuing filings | 29 |
U.S. Patents issued | 78 |
Foreign Patent Application filings | 41 |
Foreign Patents issued | 22 |
Licenses executed | 18 |
CRADAs executed | 4 |
End user Agreements executed | 51 |
Nondisclosure Agreements executed | 453 |
Licenses under management | 108 |
CRADAs under management | 29 |
Inter-institutional Agreements under management | 25 |
Material Transfer Agreements under management | 102 |
Licensing Revenue | $9,649,845 |
CRADA funding | $4,703,823 |
Industrial Partnerships Office P.O. Box 808, L-795 Livermore, CA 94551 Phone: (925) 422-6416 Fax: (925) 423-8988
Operated by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration