Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog : Maryland Intellectual Property Lawyer & Attorney : Brian Wm. Higgins : Serving Baltimore, Columbia, Frederick

• Senior Patent Agent; MedImmune; Gaithersburg, MD (posted Jan. 23, 2012)

• Corporate Counsel- Intellectual Property; Millennium Inorganic Chemicals (Cristal); Glen Burnie, MD (posted Jan. 9, 2012)

• Patent Attorney (Bioscience); Lonza America Inc.; Walkersville, MD (posted Jan. 5, 2012)

• Patent Counsel; Johns Hopkins University (School of Medicine); Baltimore, MD (posted Dec. 23, 2011)

• Legal Intern; Discovery Communications; Silver Spring, MD (posted Nov. 23, 2011; originally posted Aug. 29, 2011)

• Intellectual Property Manager; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore, MD (posted Dec. 8, 2011; originally posted Dec. 1, Nov. 23, 2011)

• Patent Attorney; National Security Agency (NSA); Ft. Meade, MD (posted Nov. 19, 2011)

• Sr. Patent Agent/IP Counsel (Patent Attorney); MedImmune; Gaithersburg, MD (posted Aug. 23, 2011)

• Corporate Attorney (IP); JDS Uniphase Corp.; Germantown, MD (posted Aug. 18, 2011)

• Sr. Intellectual Property Manager; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore, MD (posted August 2, 2011)

• Intellectual Property Manager; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore, MD (posted August 2, 2011)

• Intellectual Property Director; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore, MD (posted August 2, 2011)

• Senior Counsel I (incl. IP); Bechtel Corp; Frederick, MD (posted April 27, 2011)

• Counsel (incl. IP Litigation); Constellation Energy Group; Baltimore, MD (posted April 21, 2011)

• Senior Intellectual Property Legal and Docketing Assistant; Under Armour; Baltimore, MD (posted April 20, 2011)

• Director Intellectual Asset Management (in house); Annapolis, MD; TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS); posted March 24, 2011

• General Counsel; Pandora Group; Columbia, MD (posted April 2011)

• Technology & IP Contracts Counsel (in house); Silver Spring, MD; Choice Hotels; posted March 22, 2011

• SVP & Assoc General Counsel (in house); Bethesda, MD; Marriott International; posted March 14, 2011

• Patent Attorney (in house); Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; Department of The Army; posted February 22, 2011

• Licensing Associate (in house); Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins University; posted February 9, 2011

• Brand/Trademark Asset Protection Investigator (in house); Baltimore, MD; Under Armour; posted February 9, 2011

• Associate/Assistant General Counsel (in house); suburban, MD; employer name undisclosed (private placement); posted January 10, 2011

• General Counsel (in house); Columbia, MD; employer name undisclosed (private placement); posted January 10, 2011

• Assistant/Associate General Counsel (Patents) (in house): Laurel, MD; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; posted January 7, 2011

• Associate - Patents (law firm); Rockville, MD; Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC; posted January 5, 2011

• Associate Counsel - Technology Licensing (in-house); Columbia, MD; Merkle; posted January 2011

• Corporate Counsel/Senior Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property (in-house); Gaithersburg, MD; MedImmune; posted November 9, 2010

• Intellectual Property Counsel (in-house); Germantown, MD; Hughes; posted August 23, 2010

• Patent Coordinator (in-house); Rockville, MD; Canon USA; posted August 19, 2010

• Patent Attorney (in-house); Rockville, MD; Human Genome Sciences; posted August 3, 2010

• Patent Attorney (in-house); Rockville, MD; Human Genome Sciences; posted July 16, 2010

• Patent Counsel (in-house); Bethesda, MD; Micromet, Inc.; posted July 15, 2010

• Patent Attorney (in-house); Rockville, MD; Human Genome Sciences; posted May 31, 2010

• Project Coordinator-Intellectual Property (in-house); Columbia, MD; Martek; posted May 4, 2010 

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Four Johns Hopkins University students were recognized during the 2010 Collegiate Inventors Competition awards event on October 27th at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.  A special dinner honoring the finalists was held earlier at the United States Patent and Trademark Auditorium the evening before and was attended by PTO Director David Kappos and Commissioner of Patents Robert Stoll.  The Hopkins students--Leyla Isik, Salina Khushal, Michael Shen & Emilie Yeh--won $2,500 for their third place invention, entitled "Intelligent Surgical Drill for Improved Orthopedic Surgery."  First and second place awards went to several students representing Harvard, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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     Maryland tops the nation in research and development spending at universities, government laboratories, and other private entities and institutions, so it should come as no suprise that Maryland has lots of intellectual property that is available for commercialization. The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), a Maryland State government corporation, is tasked with the responsibility of trying to transfer all of that technology into the private sector in Maryland and elsewhere. 

     Enter Invenio-IP®, a database developed by the University of Maryland through a grant from TEDCO.  Invenio is a free, web-based, searchable access point containing patented and non-patented technologies available for commercialization. The database includes not only technologies developed by Maryland entities and institutions, but those developed outside the state (for now, only Virginia and DC):

• Avanti Therapeutics
• College of William and Mary
• Georgetown University
• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (Laurel, MD)
• Johns Hopkins University (MD)
• US Army Medical Research & Materiel Command
• University of Maryland Baltimore County
• University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
• University of Maryland, Baltimore
• University of Maryland, College Park
  

     Don't expect to find only state of the art technologies in the Invenio database. I ran a search for "drug" and was presented with 291 technologies, some of which was patented several years ago. The web interface is not the best I have seen, but it gets you the information quickly. One nice feature is that you can set up an alert that will ping you when technologies matching your keywords are added to the database.

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