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Filing patent applications on novel, useful, and non-obvious inventions makes them more attractive to potential industry partners and ensures LBNL and its researchers receive credit and a fair return once inventions are commercialized. FY18 Patent Applications Filed by Research Area FY18 Patents Issued by Research Area 75 23 3 5 TOTAL: 163 TOTAL: 77 3 5 7 21 3 • • • • • • 49 12 • • • • • • Biosciences: 75 Computing Sciences: 3 Earth and Environmental Sciences: 12 Energy Sciences: 49 Energy Technologies: 21 Physical Sciences: 3 34 Biosciences: 23 Computing Sciences: 3 Earth and Environmental Sciences: 5 Energy Sciences: 34 Energy Technologies: 7 Physical Sciences: 5 IPO’s patent attorneys and technology commercialization associates work together to identify potential markets and partners for new inventions and software and to determine next steps for patent or copyright protection. IP Management Plans Interinstitutional Agreements An Intellectual Property Management Plan An Interinstitutional Agreement (IIA) is negotiated (IPMP) is established to manage IP expected to between partners who jointly own IP to manage patent be created under a single research award involving filing and prosecution as well as future licensing of multiple parties—universities, private companies, the IP. and/or other DOE national labs. Without the IPMP In FY18, IPO developed seven (7) IIAs with in place, the research project is not funded and universities and research institutions, ensuring work cannot begin. that scientific discoveries ultimately reach the In FY18, IPO negotiated two (2) IPMPs, each marketplace, to benefit society. with four parties, to enable research funding into Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. –5–