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Disclose your innovation to automatically enter the annual IDEA Awards and trigger the review process by OIPC to evaluate the commercial potential.

If the University declines to pursue commercialization, full ownership reverts to you.

If the University decides to pursue commercialization, we collaborate with you to protect your intellectual property through a patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret.

Through licensing, we'll bring it to market by partnering with an existing business or a new startup.

Finally, enjoy the financial rewards: you keep 100% of the first $10,000 in royalties, followed by a 50/50 net revenue split with the University.

All Innovators (Faculty, Staff, & Students)

The outlines how and why OIPC and UAF encourage and support innovation and creativity by employees and students.

Faculty

Faculty can find how inventions and other creative works demonstrate evidence of excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity at the University Policies and Procedure Faculty Blue Book

Unionized Members

Policies regarding UAF's intellectual property rights as a union member can be found in your respective Collective Bargaining Agreement's located on .

For more information please contact us!

When submitting a disclosure, your invention automatically gets entered into the annual invention competition, which recognizes the best innovations developed at UAF and UAS by faculty, staff, and students.  More information can be found on the awards page.

Additionally, UAF has a generous policy for distribution of net revenue. When an innovation begins to make revenue or royalties, innovators keep 100% of the first $10,000, followed by a 50/50 net revenue split with the University after that. 

Plus along with any papers in a journal you publish you also have the opportunity to get a patent!

For more information concerning U.S. Patent and Trademark and Copyright Resources, see: 

1. Main
2. Patent and trademark resource Center (PTRC) – Fairbanks, Alaska – Mather Library, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Phone: 907-474-2636
3.   on the USPTO website
4. within the USPTO
5. Other information-
   • PDF outlining from the USPTO
   • - USPTO
   • - USPTO

Commercialization looks different for each technology. The diagram below outlines one pathway innovations can take from Disclosure to Royalty generating revenue for the Innovators.

Once research from UAF or UAS is disclosed to the Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization (OIPC), it enters an initial phase of analysis. The findings are shared with the Intellectual Property Advisory Committee (IPAC), who help determine if the innovation will be assigned to the Nanook Innovation Corporation (NIC), or if additional research is needed. The decision is communicated to the innovator. If the assignment moves forward, OIPC develops an in-depth marketing and IP protection strategy. The innovation is then actively marketed for about 90 days, and if a license is negotiated with a potential partner, it is executed through a NIC or Nanook Technology Ventures (NTV) license.

Innovators are kept up-to-date through the process and are more definitively informed at each key decision point, represented by the dark blue rhombuses in the diagram below.

and Nanook Tech Ventures add great value to our commercialization process. Nanook Innovation Corporation is a non-profit organization created to foster innovation and collaboration between the University's best innovators and community organizations.

Nanook Tech Ventures has a board filled with seasoned business professionals and investors interested in helping small companies, specifically startups,  bring technologies to the marketplace.