Who decides whether or not to file patent applications?
University of Louisville investigators submit their inventions and discoveries to the University’s Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) as research disclosures. OTT then reviews the research disclosures and makes the University’s decision whether or not to elect title to the invention or discovery described within the disclosure. OTT then provides a written communication with the University’s decision to the inventor(s) within one-hundred and twenty (120) days following receipt of the research disclosure.
