Licensing Manager

Job Details

University of Colorado Anschutz

Department: CU Innovations

Job Title: Licensing Manager

Position #: 00846075 – Requisition #: 39302

Job Summary:

Licensing Managers are part of the licensing team, part of the broader Innovations team, and part of the CU Anschutz campus' team, bringing new technologies to patients. The Licensing Manager's primary function is to manage the day-to-day operations of a complex portfolio of University intellectual property in the life sciences, including therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and digital health. This includes independently evaluating, advancing, partnering and commercializing an intellectual property portfolio.

Licensing Managers will have strong portfolio commercialization skills, including understanding and assessing the intellectual assets developed in a faculty member's lab. They will encourage faculty to disclosure new ideas, inventions and other intellectual assets to Innovations. They are also responsible for assessing new inventions for technical merit, patentability, and commercial feasibility, while overseeing the filing and prosecution of patent applications where appropriate. They will independently identify and communicate with potential licensees to market technologies to industry. They are responsible for negotiating, drafting and enforcing options, licenses, IIAs, CDAs and other revenue generating agreements. Importantly, Licensing Managers must have the confidence and interpersonal skills necessary to communicate with very senior, high-level faculty and executives in the business community.

Licensing Managers will confer with campus administrative staff and investigators on intellectual property protection and licensing, and to coordinate procedures to ensure compliance with rules, regulations, laws, university policies, and business contracts. The position requires the use of a variety of communications and computer database tools to track and convey issues and decisions about invention disclosures, patent applications, patent prosecution, patent issuance and maintenance, and all contractual agreements and financial arrangements related to a particular technology.

Key Responsibilities:

• The primary function is the management of a portfolio of university intellectual property in the life sciences disciplines.
• Understand and assess the intellectual assets in a faculty member's lab, whether patentable or not, encouraging disclosure of new ideas, inventions and other intellectual assets to TTO.
• Evaluate and analyze new invention disclosures for technical merit, meet with inventor(s), assess patentability, marketability, commercial feasibility and identify relevant industry contacts.
• Encourage the commercialization of innovation through multiple channels including industry collaborations, licensing or the formation of start-up companies.
• Develop commercialization strategies including product development and funding plans, identify critical path experiments, and source cross-functional teams.
• Develop licensing strategies, identify potential licensees, negotiate terms, draft agreements, and close deals.
• Manage patent-related activities, including the filing and prosecution of patent applications.
• Assist with the daily operations of the Campus and System Technology Transfer Offices.
• Organize educational programs for faculty, inventors, and entrepreneurs and serve as liaisons to the business community.
• Provide information and advice to investigators, students, and other campus staff on matters involving intellectual property policies, procedures and decisions.
• Mentor and support more junior members of the licensing team as it relates to the licensing and commercialization process.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the Director of Licensing.

Work Location:

Hybrid – this role is eligible for a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week on campus and as needed for in-person meetings.