A crucial part of our wider provision, specialists with particular focuses on NHS Tech Transfer, Patent and Licensing Management and our own in-house legal team support a wide range of our teams to enhance our operations.
Support for Commercialisation consists of the following teams:
Support for Commercialization is part of Research and Enterprise Operations
Patent and Licence Management
The Imperial Patent and Licence Management team oversees the protection, commercialization, and licensing of intellectual property for Imperial College innovations.
Patent and Licence Management
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Dr Laura Guida
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What can I help with?
- General IP and commercialisation queries
- Guidance on funder IP terms and support with funder reporting
- Lead on post-deal management and point of contact for licensed patents
- General IP due diligence and patent formalities queries
- Guidance on revenue distributions for third-party contributions
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Dr Dario Colombo
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What can I help with?
- Lead on Intellectual Property Due Diligence team to deliver a portfolio of cases, while prioritising cases
- Provide specialist IP and Due Diligence support for complex projects
- Advise on strategies to resolve IP encumbrances prior commercialisaiton of technologies
- Provide training in IP and Due Diligence
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Ana Maria Bejarano Gomez
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What can I help with?
- Advice on encumbrances for the commercialisation or abandonment of different IP rights
- Assist with Intellectual Property-related questions for specific cases, including trademark management
- Advice on attributable portion calculations for funders' and research partners' revenue shares
- Draft and execute Intellectual Property-related agreements
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Joanne Sarao
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What can I help with?
- Advise on financial obligations and diligence provisions of license agreements
- Provide training on recording contractual obligations in Salesforce.
- Advise on third-party rights to ensure that IP due diligence priorities are aligned with the commercial priorities
- Assist with completion and drafting of revenue sharing letters and consents to reflect appropriate attributable contribution and revenue distribution models for third party funders.
- Responsible for the institutional return of commercialisation and IP reports to funders including iEdison, an online relational database designed around the reporting requirements of the Bayh-Dole Act (US federal funded grants)
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Dr Janna Potticary
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Patent and Formalities Officer
- Advice on patent formality requirements and management of obtaining signatures on patent formality documents
- Provide specialist guidance in patent management
- Support with patent prosecution deadlines and renewals
- Provide historical communications regarding past patent filings, e.g. emails and documents
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Kevin Tsang
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What can I help with?
- Advise on financial obligations and diligence provisions of license agreements
- Provide training on recording contractual obligations in Salesforce.
- Advise on third-party rights to ensure that IP due diligence priorities are aligned with the commercial priorities
- Assist with completion and drafting of revenue sharing letters and consents to reflect appropriate attributable contribution and revenue distribution models for third party funders.
- Responsible for the institutional return of commercialisation and IP reports to funders including iEdison, an online relational database designed around the reporting requirements of the Bayh-Dole Act (US federal funded grants)
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Joanne Vango
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What I can help with?
- Assist you with any Due Diligence enquiries on documentation you have been asked to complete, to summarise your findings and support you in flagging legal risks if appropriate
- Aid with negotiations if required with third parties to enable to Due Diligence Officer to draft an IP assignment agreement that is favourable to IC;
- Be involved in “kick off meetings” re the potential and appropriate vehicle for commercialisation in specific cases that have been allocated to the individual Due Diligence Officer.
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Chloe Rosenfeld
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What can I help with?
- Conduct Intellectual Property Due Diligence on specific cases
- Assist with IP- related queries for specific cases, including patent queries and queries regarding encumbrances for commercialization
- Draft and execut of IP-related agreements and assisting with associated queries
In-house lawyers
The Imperial In-house Lawyers team in the Enterprise Division provides legal support for contracts, compliance, and intellectual property matters.
In-house lawyers
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Mark Fox
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Sophies Fages-Plantier
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NHS Technology Transfer
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Manish Patel
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Catrin Owen
Spin outs
The Imperial Spinouts team in the Enterprise Division supports the creation and growth of spinout companies based on Imperial's innovations.
Spin outs
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Dr Neil Simrick
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What can I help with?
- Resident expert on the process of spinout formation, supporting the Industry Partnership and Commercialisation Teams by leading on best practice on all spinout formation matters.
- Responsible for ensuring the spinout process enables the growth in the number of spinouts at Imperial as part of the university’s mission to create impact from its research
- Responsible for the management of Imperial’s spinout equity portfolio
- Lead on all post-formation matters relating to Imperial’s spinout portfolio
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Marco Chan
What can I help with?
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Supporting the Commercialisation Team within the Enterprise Division with the spinout formation process, in particular with on equity, shareholding and general corporate matters
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Fosters relationships as appropriate with external spinout legal providers
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Supporting the Commercialisation Team within the Enterprise Division to ensure all aspects of company formation are undertaken correctly and in line with standard operating procedures
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Post-formation spinout support
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Tracking and monitoring of spinout company development
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