NCI IP-Licensing Study Shows That Patent Age Influences Deal Probability

Feb 25, 2009

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This article has been updated from a previous version to clarify data from the study.

About half of all National Cancer Institute technology licenses are executed within three years of the technology's initial patent application date; while almost all licenses include technologies within eight years of the application date, according to the results of a recent NCI study on the influence of patent term on biomedical technology licensing.

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