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…