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Welcome to the Office of Technology Commercialization at Rutgers also known as the OTC.

Success through Innovation

Creating knowledge and transmitting it to present and future generations is the very essence of a research university. Students and faculty at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey are creating new discoveries and technology in numerous disciplines including agriculture, engineering, computing, physical sciences, energy, life sciences and pharmaceuticals.

At the Office of Technology Commercialization, we serve as a bridge between Rutgers researchers and commercialization partners, ensuring the smooth and fast transfer of intellectual property created at the University.

We:

  • Transfer the inventions of Rutgers faculty into practical applications, via licenses and start-up companies so that they benefit society on a local, national and global basis
  • Educate and serve as a resource for the Rutgers community on matters relating to intellectual property, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship.
  • Protect intellectual property via trademarks and patents
  • Market technologies to companies, entrepreneurs and investors via numerous channels
  • Negotiate patent licenses
  • Assist in start-up company creation

In pursuit of our objectives, Rutgers, the flagship comprehensive public research university, has maintained a patenting and technology commercialization program for over 20 years.

Success through Commercialization

The Office of Technology Commercialization turns Rutgers academic discoveries into commercial successes. We move technology from the academic environment to the commercial sector. In doing so, we provide patenting, marketing, licensing, start-up company formation and other commercialization support to our student and faculty researchers at three campuses throughout New Jersey.

Patent Hall of Fame

- Congratulations to the following Rutgers inventors who were recently issued patents

Patent Issued Inventor(s) Title
8,389,721 3/05/2013 LaVoie, Edmond J.
Liu, Leroy F.
Solubilized topoisomerase poisons
8,389,700 3/05/2013 Langrana, Noshir A.
Lin, David C.
Agent delivery system capable of selectively releasing an agent
8,377,915 2/19/2013 Gorelick-Feldman, Jonathan
Raskin, Ilya
Methods for treating or preventing disorders using ecdysteroid compositions
8,377,683 2/19/2013 Lu, Yicheng.
Reyes, Pavel Ivanoff
Boustany, Nada N.
Zinc oxide-based nanostructure modified QCM for dynamic monitoring of cell adhesion and proliferation
8,372,839 2/12/2013 Ebright, Richard H.
Wang, Dongye
Bipartite inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase
8,367,419 2/5/2013 Li, Jing
Lan, Anjian
Li, Kunhao

Compositions and methods for detection of explosives
8,367,110 2/5/2013 Kohn, Joachim B.
Khan, Issac John
Iovine, Carmine P.

Polymeric drug delivery compositions and methods for treating ophthalmic diseases
8,361,453 1/29/2013 Uhrich, Kathryn E.
Carbone, Ashley

Iodinated polymers
8,354,246 1/15/2013 Ebright, Richard H.
Mukhopadhyay, Jayanta
Severinov, Konstantin
Semenova, Ekaterina

Non-MCCJ25-related lariat-peptide inhibitors of bacterial RNA polymerase
8,343,971 1/1/2013 Laskin, Jeffrey D.
Heck, Diane E.
Lacey, Carl Jeffrey
Aponte, Erik
Huang, Mou-Tuan
Heindel, Ned D.

Pharmacologically-active vanilloid carbamates
8,343,941 1/1/2013 Gunderson, Samuel Ian
Goraczniak, Rafal

Compositions and methods for gene silencing
8,337,904 12/25/2012 Riman, Richard E
Suchanek, Wojciech
Shuk, Pavel
TenHuisen, Kevor S.
Chen, Chun-Wei

Magnesium-substituted hydroxyapatites
8,332,632 12/11/2012 Iftode, Liviu
Xu,Gang

Method and system for execution monitor-based trusted computing
8,313,802 11/20/2012 Riman, Richard E
Atakan, Vahit

Method of hydrothermal liquid phase sintering of ceramic materials and products derived therefrom
8,295,575 10/23/2012 Feldman, Michael D.
Viswanath, Satish
Tiwari, Pallavi
Toth, Robert
Madabhushi, Anant

Computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) of cancer using multi-functional, multi-modal in-vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI)
8,288,590 10/16/2012 Kohn, Joachim B.
Bolikal, Durgadas
Schut, Jaap
Baluca, Ernest G.

N-substituted monomers and polymers
8,287,914 10/16/2012 Riman, Richard.
Sever, Christina

Biomimetic hydroxyapatite synthesis
8,280,132 10/02/2012 Madabhushi, Anant
Doyle, Scott
Feldman, Michael D.
Tomaszewski, John E.

Malignancy diagnosis using content-based image retreival of tissue histopathology
8,263,060 9/11/2012 Uhrich, Kathryn E.
Kim, Young Mi

Fast degrading polymers
8,252,887 8/28/2012 Bolikal, Durgadas
Brandom, Don K.
Kabalnova, Lioubov
Baluca, Ernest G.
Kohn, Joachim

Biocompatible polymers for medical devices
8,241,668 8/14/2012 Uhrich, Kathryn E.

Therapeutic polyesters and polyamides
8,232,322 7/31/2012 East, Anthony
Letton, Alan
Kanamathareddy, Suseela
Pudil, Bryant J.
Goodrich, Stephen
Hicks, Michael
High molecular weight polymers, devices and method for making and using same
8,231,543 7/31/2012 Benasich, April A.
Nawyn, Jason
Roesler, Cynthia P.
Realpe-Bonilla, Teresa
Choudhury, Naseem
Methods and systems for screening and treatment of young infants demonstrating deficits in auditory processing
8,221,790 7/17/2012 Uhrich, Kathryn E.

Therapeutic polyesters and polyamides
8,218,836 7/10/2012 Metaxas, Dimitris
Banerjee, Debabr

System and methods for generating three-dimensional images from two-dimensional bioluminescence images and visualizing tumor shapes and locations
8,206,898 6/26/2012 Ebright, Richard H.

RNA exit channel: target and method for inhibition of bacterial RNA polymerase
8,204,315 6/19/2012 Madabhushi, Anant
Feldman, Michael D.
Tomaszewski, John E.
Rosen, Mark
Shi, Jianbo

Systems and methods for classification of biological datasets
8,198,021 6/12/2012 Ebright, Richard H.

Target and method for inhibition of bacterial RNA polymerase
8,192,754 6/05/2012 Uhrich, Kathryn
E.Tian, Lu

Micelle assemblies
8,187,806 5/29/2012 Buyske, Steven
Stenroos, Edward S.
Johnson, William G.

Association of GSTM1 with autism and assays and methods based thereon
8,187,802 5/29/2012 White, Eileen
Strohecker, Anne Marie
Mathew, Robin
Karp, Cristina

Cell lines useful for assessing modulation of autophagy
8,185,551 5/22/2012 Kuszmaul, Bradley C.
Bender, Michael A.
Farach-Colton, Martin

Disk-resident streaming dictionary
8,183,395 5/22/2012 Falkowski, Paul
Andrianasolo, Eric H.
Haramaty, Liti
White, Eileen
Lutz, Richard

Compositions and methods for treating cancer
8,173,163 5/08/2012 Kohn, Joachim B.
Khan, Isaac John
Lovine; Carmine P.

Polymeric drug delivery compositions and methods for treating ophthalmic diseases
8,164,345 4/24/2012 Bushnell, Michael L.
Ausoori, Raghuveer
Khan, Omar
Mehta, Deepak
Chen, Xinghao

Spectral and information theoretic method of test point, partial-scan, and full-scan flip-flop insertion to improve
8,147,863 4/03/2012 Kohn, Joachim B.
Pulapura, Satish
Schwarz, Arthur
Bahulekar, Raman

Polyarylates for drug delivery and tissue engineering
8,143,474 3/27/2012 Maliga, Pal

Compositions and methods for increasing transgene expression in the plastids of higher plants
PP22,541 3/06/2012 Vorsa, Nicholi

Cranberry plant named `CNJ95-20-20`
8,124,051 2/28/2012 Minko, Tamara
Sinko, Patrick J.
Stein, Stanley

Complex drug delivery composition and method for treating cancer
8,121,347 2/21/2012 Metaxas, Dimitris
Kanaujia, Atul

System and method for detecting and tracking features in images
8,114,951 2/14/2012 James, Ken
Brochini, Stephen
Tangpasuthadol, Varawut
Kohn, Joachim

Preparation and uses of polyarylates
8,114,583 2/14/2012 Ebright, Richard E.

Switch-region: target and method for inhibition of bacterial RNA polymerase
8,114,367 2/14/2012 Riman, Richard E.
Atakan, Vahit

Systems and methods for carbon capture and sequestration and compositions derived therefrom

Disclosure Wall of Fame

~ April 2013 ~
RU Tech ID Primary Inventor
(as listed on disclosure form)
2013-107 Eileen White
2013-108 Richard Ludescher
2013-109 Girsh Blumberg
2013-110 Jing Li
2013-111 Dunbar Birnie
2013-112 Jeffrey Laskin
2013-113 Glenn Amatucci
2013-114 Gaeetano Montelione
2013-115 Prateek Prasannao
2013-116 Richard Ebright
2013-117 Rong Di
2013-118 Thomas Nosker
2013-119 Kishore Ramachandran
2013-120 Kathryn Uhrich
2013-121 Ilya Raskin
2013-122 Ilya Raskin