- takes care of inventions by employees and students of the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital,
- is the point of contact for universities, colleges, research institutions and industry in matters of intellectual property.
Inventions and patents, research transfer and technology transfer
Technology Transfer Office
Service
Have you invented something?
Please contact us and let us advise you (also before filling out the invention disclosure form).
Please note: the essential requirements for a patent are:
- Novelty (i.e. it has not yet been published) and
- inventive step (i.e. the prior art does not suggest the invention).
Further details, including the law on employee inventions (ArbEG), can be found in the brochure of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.
Are you already the owner of a university patent and have questions about exploitation?
Please get in touch with us. We will take care of the exploitation and consider partnerships and cooperations or help to generate them.
Publishing and patenting?
Yes, you can!
It's not mutually exclusive, it just has to be done in the right order: First report the invention, then publish it. Ideally, the result is both: publication and patent application.
Ask us!
Important note: Your invention is not "protected" by registering it with us. Only when a patent application has been duly filed with the Patent Office is the prerequisite for obtaining a priority right fulfilled. In urgent cases, we can process your invention disclosure and, if necessary, prepare a professional patent application within six weeks.
Note: The legislator grants the employer two months to evaluate an invention disclosure with the intention of publication, without the intention of publication it is four months.
Contact persons
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Head of the Technology Transfer department |
Phone number: +49 7071 29-77654 E-mail address: Heinrich.Schieferstein@med.uni-tuebingen.de |
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Phone number: +49 7071 29-77937 E-mail address: Ines.Duenkel@med.uni-tuebingen.de |
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Legal department UKT |
Phone number: +49 7071 29-80037 E-mail address: Iris.Wolf@med.uni-tuebingen.de |
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Processing of the office |
Phone number: +49 7071 29-77673 Fax number: 07071 29-5784 E-mail address: Susanne.Strauss@med.uni-tuebingen.de |
Further information
Further information, downloads and links
Forms - Downloads
Patent search
The following websites are suitable for further patent searches:
| Furnishing | service | Link to |
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| German Patent and Trade Mark Office | Search and documents, information on DPMA/procedures | Homepage |
| Espacenet, patent search at the European Patent Office | Search and documents | Homepage |
| US Patent Office | Information about USPTO/procedures | Homepage |
| WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) | Patentscope | Link to |
| Google Patents | Search engine from Google | Link to |
Spin-off
If you are specifically interested in start-ups, you can either contact the Startup Center directly or have a preliminary discussion with the Technology Transfer Office. We will then be happy to put you in touch with the Startup Center with pleasure.