Enriquez of ITSO, IPPDO attends G-TEC, OIT training
Date Posted: December 11, 2019 at 01:22 PM
Engr. Noe Enriquez, Technology Business Incubator Manager of the Innovation Technology Support Office (ITSO), continued to develop as the University’s Intellectual Property specialists as he took part in the World Intellectual Property Organization-sponsored (WIPO) Global Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (G-TEC)- Osaka Institute of Technology (OIT) Summer Intensive Program at Osaka, Japan last August 19 to 30.
The one-week GTEC course featured an array of discussions on technology commercialization that reinforce previous WIPO trainings focused on technology valuation, market assessment, barriers to entry and patent due diligence, and licensing and technology valuation.
Professors of OIT and Intellectual Property (IP) specialists delivered talks on Technology Translation: The Gap Between Discovery and Development Phase, Translation of Science to Customer’s Need, Special Forms of IP Protection – FDA Data Exclusivity in Drug Invention, and Value Chain Analysis as A Tool for Market Assessment.
“[The program] gave me a complete grasp of technology in actual and not just theoretical [application],” Engr. Enriquez said.
The Director of the Institutional Planning and Policy Development Office (IPPDO) also reflected on his learnings from the said seminar.
“I will share this tool to my technology managers handling and managing the University’s technologies. With this tool, they can identify which companies to interview for expert opinions and to gather the “voice of the customers”. These interviews are important for the reason that the market cares about the technology’s benefits and needs, not the features,” the Associate Professor said.
OIT’s Graduate School of IP offers Summer Intensive Course held during the school’s summer vacation. Subjects offered in the program include Introduction to US Judicial System and Litigation, Introduction to US Patent System, US Patent Case Law, International IP License, and IP Law Systems in Japan.
