Overview Of Services

 Marketing: create customized marketing strategies and web/print promotional materials...more

 Licensing: provide technology valuation and license contract negotiation consulting...more

 Startup Assistance: brand and market your new company to investors ...more

 Economic Development: develop state or regional geographic web portals to promote the area ...more

 Web and Knowledge Management Services: create Intranets, extranets, and public web sites ...more

InfoWeb provides valuation and contract negotiation consulting services for in and out licensing opportunities. Barry Datlof, InfoWeb's principal, has almost 20 years of licensing experience. He started the OTT's at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the American Red Cross and has negotiated licenses from the for-profit and nonprofit side of the table. He also helped establish a number of industry standards, such as standard definitions for material transfer agreements. These definitions were later incorporated into the "Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement" (aka UBMTA), which has been signed by over 300 institutions.

  MTA Definitions

Consider lowering your transaction costs by using web-based contracting. Short contracts such as MTAs, CDAs, Letters of Intent, and non-exclusive licenses can be drafted, negotiated, and executed more efficiently, consistently, and effectively using online contracting. Web-based approval tracking allows everyone to know who's next for approval or who has been the holdup. Scientists no longer have to wonder where in the process things stand. InfoWeb can provide you with industry standard contracts that can be modified to suit your special needs.

  Contract InfoWeb Demo

The web is a vast resource with many valuable, yet separate nodes that can be aggregated. Organizations can facilitate their mission by creating portals that bring together people and needed resources. Barry presented "Enhancing Technology Commercialization Through Web-Based Search and Portal Systems" at The National Acadamies to spur the development of national technology transfer standards (see proposal ).

InfoWeb is developing topical and geographic portals to enhance technology commercialization and economic development. These portals will need to grow beyond being reference centers by becoming knowledge communities and transaction centers. We strongly advocate moving toward "relationship webs" where people using your web site can interact with you and each other. InfoWeb developed the ASSETr Model to describe the evolution of web use.

  ASSETr Model

The Cancer portal leverages the BirchBob search engine to identify and cluster cancer technologies by type of technology or type of use. Have a new portal in mind? Contact us to explore your options.

  Topical Portal Cancer

Geographic portals like the Maryland example below bring together inventors and tech transfer offices looking for licensees, partnerships, and funding with investors, government economic development groups and industry. For example: startups seeking funding within a given state are faced with the time consuming and redundant task of applying for each funding mechanism. We are creating a unified front end that allows applicants to fill out one application that is then sent to each group for which the startup qualifies.

  Geographic Portal Maryland

Presentations

• Oligonucleotide Intellectual Property Landscape - Flash (11MB) or PPT( .7MB)
• Patent & Licensing
• Web Business Use
• Knowledge Management KM/IP
• Enhancing Technology Commercialization Through Web-Based Search and Portal Systems