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18 April 2011

NovaUCD reports on inventions, patent applications and licences in 2010

NovaUCD the innovation and technology transfer centre at University College Dublin (UCD) has issued its annual report for 2010. During the year, researchers in UCD reported 57 new invention disclosures and filed 38 patent applications, including 14 priority, 9 PCT (Patent Co-operation Treaty) and 15 national/regional applications. In 2010 16 licence agreements were also concluded with a range of indigenous and international companies and 9 new high-tech companies located at NovaUCD.

 

FRKelly has worked closely with NovaUCD since its launch 7 years ago and is proud to have played a part in protecting many of the inventions emerging from University College Dublin over that time. We wish them every continued success in commercialising the IP generated by the researchers in UCD.

 

In the 7-years since NovaUCD opened 16 UCD spin-out companies have been incorporated and just under 60 high-tech and knowledge-intensive companies have located at NovaUCD and availed of NovaUCD's support programmes and services. Over 320 inventions have been disclosed by UCD researchers, over 100 priority patent applications have been filed and over 70 licence agreements have been completed since 2004. The complete NovaUCD 2010 Annual Report is available via http://www.ucd.ie/nova/mediacentre/novaucdannualreports/2010/