Jeremy Clay was appointed director of Mississippi State University’s (MSU’s) tech transfer office, Office of Technology Management (OTM), last month.
Clay joined OTM in 2015 as a technology licensing associate and was already acting as interim director ahead of his permanent promotion. As the director, he takes continued responsibility for protecting, licensing and commercialising MSU’s intellectual property (IP).
Clay is a qualified patent attorney who practised before the US Patent and Trademark Office during his time at three different law firms.
The university awarded Clay a wildlife science degree with great distinction in 2004. Clay ran his own asphalt maintenance business until 2009 and was a regulatory biologist with the US Army Corps of Engineers from 2004 to 2006.
MSU’s commercialisation operation earned $204,000 in royalties during the 2016 financial year, generating two spinouts and securing seven patents.
Clay said: “It is a great privilege to work with Mississippi State’s world-class researchers, and all of us in OTM understand the essential role IP and tech transfer play in the university’s overall research portfolio.”
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