This article will briefly describe the process that the technology transfer staff uses to work with faculty, staff or students to assess whether an invention has commercial potential and how to proceed.
Inventors usually have vital first-hand knowledge.
Inventors are asked to undertake preliminary patent and literature searches. Technology Transfer uses the following as a guideline. Usually, at the stage at which most FSU inventions are disclosed, only very modest amounts of hard information are available in response to these question. However, some estimates are useful to assess the situation. The Office of Research aims to complete the evaluation as rapidly as possible.