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The Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office (JHTT) is the University’s intellectual property administration center, serving Johns Hopkins researchers and inventors as a licensing, patent, and technology commercialization office and acting as an active liaison to parties interested in leveraging JHU research or materials for academic or corporate endeavors.

The primary functions of JHTT include:

• Encouraging the disclosure of new ideas and discoveries and helping JHU researchers to identify patentable and copyrightable inventions and tangible research properties that might ultimately become commercial products and services;
• Protecting and managing the University's intellectual and tangible property;
• Licensing the University's technologies, facilitating collaborations between researchers, companies, and entrepreneurs interested in developing our innovations, and returning appropriate revenue to our laboratories;
• Encouraging and supporting product development and entrepreneurial activities within the University;
• Seeking and nurturing contacts with national and international companies and entrepreneurs that are capable of developing and commercializing our innovations for the public good.

JOHNS HOPKINS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ANNUAL REPORT FOR FY08