What We Do

CTTC supports Vanderbilt researchers in commercializing intellectual property by providing a variety of services, including:

• Evaluating commercial opportunities and market potential for new intellectual property
• Filing and prosecuting patent applications and maintaining issued patents
• Registering copyrights
• Marketing intellectual property
• Negotiating license agreements and options
• Executing crucial agreements, including material transfer, confidentiality, interinstitutional, and research collaboration
• Reviewing intellectual property language in sponsored research and clinical trial agreements
• Monitoring licensee compliance
• Tracking milestones and collecting royalties
• Distributing payments to inventors and authors, labs, departments, centers, institutes, and schools