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NIA Tech Transfer Hub: Process Step 3 |
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Step 3: The Patent Process
NIA views the patent process as one of the key moments in the commercialization journey of a researcher’s dream. NIA understands that a researcher is the key player in articulating the nuances of the proposed invention. NIA works in a collaborative process with the researcher and with our patent attorneys in extracting the researcher’s nuances and refining them into a patent application. NIA will have a number of meetings between our patent counsel and the NIA inventors. The timing for the filing of the patent application is dependent on a variety of factors, ranging from multiple inventors, multiple companies as subcontractors and other complexities that are involved with the patent process.
Typically, NIA will file a provisional patent application, which will then result in marketing the invention to the market sector identified by the researcher and NIA as being the appropriate target area for commercialization. NIA recognizes and will work with each prospective commercial entity on methods of supporting the development of prototypes and the marketing of the commercial product.
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