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OCTOBER 2013
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Top Story University of California achieved #1 university by total number of licenses executed in 2012 The top 9 U.S. universities were listed by licenses executed, licensing revenue and startups launched related to life sciences in 2012. In particular, Berkeley is 1 of 5 universities that founded 2/3 of all biotechnology companies in California. Berkeley Biotech Successes: Bioentrepreneurs at the University of California have predecessors dating to the early decades of the 20th century. Bancroft Library Fluxion Biosciences, a Berkeley spinoff, won the 2013 R&D 100 Award (also known as "the Oscars of Innovation") with its IsoFlux circulating tumor cell system. R&D Magazine KineMed inks deal with Amgen to study neurodegenerative biomarkers for brain diseases, using KineMed’s Dynamic Proteomics biomarker platform. KineMed Boris Rubinsky's NanoKnife invention has enabled cancer breakthrough kill without affecting the surrounding supportive tissues or nearby nerves and blood vessels. AngioDynamics >> Contact our team at ipira@berkeley.edu to get details on Professor Rubinsky's latest inventions. IN THIS ISSUE License or sponsor a UC Berkeley research Innovator resources Portfolio news Affiliate news Industry briefings Events and discount tickets
License or Sponsor a UC Berkeley Research
Printed organic leds and photodetector for flexiblereflectance blood oximeter. Read More A highperformance energy capturing breakwater or wave shield. Read More
View University of California Berkeley Patents Innovator Resources To license a patent – or, to assign it: factors influencing the choice Sometimes, the assignment of a patent can be a pathway to commercialization that not just warrants consideration, but in fact, depending upon the occasion, may be the more desirable or even necessary pathway than licensing.
How to choose the best license for your open source software project The success of an open source project can depend on your choice of software license. That's because the license under which you make your code available has a real impact on what you can do with your code, who will contribute to it, and ultimately whether it gets widely used or ignored.
Funding Opportunities
Rock Health $100K digital health accelerator program Applications for Rock Health’s fifth class now open, apply by October 31, 2013. Topics of interest include: chronic disease management, big data, megaplatforms, healthcare system navigation, HIPAA in a box, disruptive diagnostics, home health, brain health, and more. Also sign up for office hours.
Telerik launches HTML5focused mobile app accelerator program in Silicon Valley Application development solution provider Telerik expands its operations and opens up an office in Palo Alto. Telerik will launch a new accelerator in Silicon Valley dubbed Mach5 Accelerator dedicated towards helping emerging mobile app and web development companies using HTML5. Applications for the accelerator are accepted now through November 22 and those startups chosen will participate in a 14week program beginning in January 2014.
Box $100,000 developer health app challenge First Place wins a $100,000 convertible note from Social + Capital Partnership, a venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley, plus 1month office space and mentorship and an opportunity to propose the winning solution to Dignity Health’s leadership as a potential pilot project as well as marketing and sales support from Box. Apply before January 10, 2014.
Think Big Accelerator + Microsoft Ventures Think Big Accelerator (TBA) in partnership with Microsoft Ventures is one of only a few partnerships of its kind in U.S. Microsoft Ventures will act as a strategic partner for promising startups in the TBA program focused on business growth,
customer development, industrial strength technology and beautiful usable products. TBA is an immersive 69 month program which typically invests between $18,000 and $50,000 in each startup. Read More, Apply
$4.8 million NSF funding for catalysis and biocatalysis research. $6 million NSF funding for accelerating innovation research.
Portfolio News Amyris meets major milestone in renewable fuel production Amyris announced that its farnesene plant in Brazil has achieved the production run rate of 1 million liters over a 45day period. The company also secured a $35 million bridge financing. (10/11)
A glimpse at our robotic future: 235 startups reviewed Ekso Bionics (a spinoff from UC Berkeley and 6year old Berkeley Bionics) and their exoskeleton are beginning to penetrate rehabilitation therapy centers. (9/27)
Affiliate News Haas School of Business professor Janet Yellen named to lead Fed Janet Yellen has been nominated by President Obama to become the first woman to head the nation’s Federal Reserve Board of Governors. If confirmed, Yellen will succeed current Fed Chair Ben Bernanke, who will step down in January 2014. (10/9)
Why cellular transport research won Medicine Nobel Prize 2013 for Randy Schekman Randy W. Schekman, professor of molecular and cell biology at Berkeley, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in revealing the machinery that regulates the transport and secretion of proteins in our cells. He shares the prize with James E. Rothman of Yale University and Thomas C. Südhof of Stanford University. (10/7)
Three Berkeleyans named California Academy of Sciences fellows 10 new members have joined the Academy Fellows, a governing group of around 300 distinguished scientists who have made notable contributions to one or more of the natural sciences. (10/4)
UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab announce Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute The Kavli Foundation has endowed a new institute at Berkeley to explore the basic science of how to capture and channel energy on the molecular or nanoscale to generate energy for human use. (10/3)
Four young Berkeley faculty scientists receive NIH awards University of California researchers received 15 of 78 NIH awards for highrisk, highreward research. The total NIH funding for the 78 awards is approximately $123 million. Read about their projects: Hillel Adesnik, Jennifer Ahern, David Savage, William Ludington. (9/30)
Industry Briefings Cree licenses remotephosphor optical elements patent portfolio to NNCrystal (10/16) XMC licenses IBM's 65nm and 45nm manufacturing technology nodes (10/12) Hutchison China signs licensing and marketing deal with Eli Lilly (10/9) Apple brings iCould push email notifications back to Germany after patent war (10/3) Microsoft explains the rational behind its Nokia deal (9/2) Events and Discount Tickets Upcoming Events IPIRAQB3 SBIR Bootcamp October 21, 12 2:30 pm Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley
Meeting with Johnson & Johnson California Innovation Center October 28, 10:30 am 12:30 pm Stanford Park Hotel
Discount Tickets HealthTech Conference October 30, 8:30 am 7 pm Computer History Museum Follow & DM @BerkeleyIPIRA for 15% Discount 2013 Silicon Valley Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) November 2, 8 am 5 pm Santa Clara Convention Center Keynote Speakers:
IPIRALES "Commercializing Software IP" Conference November 13, 8 am 4 pm International House, UC Berkeley NSF SBIR Phase 1 Grant Application Deadline December 2, 5 pm
Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President Steve Wozniak, CoFounder, Apple Jay Vijayan, CIO, Tesla Motors Vaughan Smith, VP, Facebook Randi Zuckerberg, Founder, Zuckerberg Media Other speakers include leaders from VMware, Baidu, Citi Ventures, TechCrunch See Full List Use code SVIEFIPIRA for $50 Discount General Pass (regular: $399) on Eventbrite registration
Cleantech to Market End of Year Presentation December 6, 9 am - 4 pm UC Berkeley
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The Future of Money & Technology Summit December 9, 9 am - 5 pm Hotel Kabuki San Francisco 40% Off Student Discount, Volunteer Pass