SCS Emigration Course
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890

The SCS Emigration Seminars are a series of lectures and discussion sessions that focus on "grooming" you so you'll be ready to conquer the real world when you finish your Ph.D. The interwoven threads are Jobs, Money, Career Options, Intellectual Property, The Real World, Ethics, and Communication Skills. Unlike the Immigration course, which is held during the first three weeks of the school year, the Emigration course is spread over the entire academic year. While the topics of interest are chosen with the more senior students in mind, students in the entire School of Computer Science are encouraged and welcome to attend.


The next session...

Intellectual Property Essentials for Technologists

with

Reid McManigle

Manager of Business Development & Licenses
Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation
Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, 3 November 2006
1:00 pm -- Newell-Simon Hall 3305
Refreshments will be served

ABSTRACT:
In this seminar, attendees will be given an overview of intellectual property that will help them be better prepared and more informed participants in the process of creating commercial value from research endeavors. The seminar will cover:


  • the importance of intellectual property in academia and industry
  • the types of intellectual property
  • legal standards for obtaining intellectual property protection
  • ownership of intellectual property
  • research practices to preserve intellectual property value
  • how academic inventions are transferred to commercial enterprises
  • suggestions for networking to access resources and gain entree to the entrepreneurial community in Pittsburgh


Reed McManigle joined CMU's Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation in 2006 as a Manager of Business Development & Licensing. In that role, he assists CMU researchers in seeking commercial outlets for their inventions through licensing or new company creation.

Reed has 20 years of experience in technology transfer and commercialization in the Pittsburgh region. He worked for ten years in the University of Pittsburgh's Office of Technology Management, where he was very active in licensing inventions, forming research collaborations with industry, and establishing startup companies. While at the OTM, Reed was the primary author of the University's policy on startup companies; helped to launch and operate the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative; and launched and implemented a campus-wide faculty education program on technology transfer and commercialization. He also launched and co-taught a course for scientists on starting a business.

Reed also has worked at two technology support organizations in the region: the Ben Franklin Technology Center of Western Pennsylvania (now Innovation Works) and the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse (PLSG). At the PLSG, he managed a number of investment programs and the wet-lab incubator operated by the PLSG for start-up companies.

Reed also has experience as a consultant to startup companies on business planning, and intellectual property assessments and strategy; and to universities on technology-based economic development strategy and evaluation of inventions.


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Upcoming Lectures:
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Past Lectures:
Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeannette Wing, Carnegie Mellon University
Ted Wong, IBM Almaden Research
Jeannette Wing, Anastassia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon University
Scott Dietzen, BEA Systems (includes slides)
Kevin Dowling, Color Kinetics
Howard Gobioff and Erik Riedel, Google Inc and Seagate Technology
Roy Levin, Microsoft Research
Peter Shane, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon
Erik Riedel, HP Laboratories (includes slides)
Astro Teller, BodyMedia, Inc.
Jeannette Wing, School of Computer Science (includes slides)

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