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