Suny at Stony Brook has opened an online inventor’s portal on World Intellectual Property Day to give faculty a digital means of protecting intellectual property.
State University of New York at Stony Brook on Wednesday announced the launch of an online inventor portal providing its faculty with digital access to tools and resources as they protect their innovations.
The service, which went online yesterday to coincide with World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, will be provided by Stony Brook’s Office of Technology Licensing and Industry Relations (OTLIR).
Faculty inventors can use the portal to create, submit and sign new disclosures through any web browser, and to scour existing intellectual property relevant to their projects.
OTLIR will be able to directly give feedback through the portal’s remarks section, while collaborative projects are supported through the ability to give co-creators editing and approval rights.
World IP Day is an annual occasion sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization with the aim of promoting greater awareness of IP’s role in sustaining innovation and creativity.
Richard Reeder, vice-president for research at Stony Brook and operations manager of the university’s research foundation, said: “We consider the protection of IP of Stony Brook inventors and the promotion of technology commercialisation as essential for supporting the integrity and vitality of the Stony Brook innovation ecosystem.
“With the new online inventor portal, critical processes become easier and faster.”