Katharine Ku (pictured), executive director of Stanford University’s tech transfer division Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), is retiring today after nearly four decades with the office.
Ku took over leadership of OTL in 1991 from the office’s first executive director, Niels Reimers, though she had been with the office since 1981. Her first job with Stanford University was as a patent engineer in the Office of Sponsored Research in 1979.
During her time with OTL, she oversaw a significant expansion…
