From patent to license, with explainable AI doing the first pass

Scope

Patentability-scoring intake and first-draft license term-sheet support.

Setting

University technology-transfer offices, startups, and industry licensing work.

Human-control boundary

Experts review consequential patentability and licensing calls; AI provides an explainable first pass.

Technology transfer is a bottleneck by nature: university tech-transfer offices, startups, and industry partners face more disclosures and deals than they can triage quickly, and the early steps — judging patentability, drafting a first term sheet — are slow, expert-dependent, and easy to fall behind on. Speed matters, but the decisions are consequential enough that an opaque "just trust the model" tool is a non-starter for institutions accountable to inventors and the public.

TechTransfer.ai provides a patentability-scoring intake and a license term-sheet generator, built around explainable recommendations and a responsible-AI governance layer. The AI handles the heavy first pass — structuring an intake, surfacing a patentability signal, drafting initial license terms — while exposing why it reached a recommendation so an expert can check it. Human review is required on consequential calls; the system accelerates the experts, it doesn't replace their judgment.

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