§For universities and labs
Technology transfer support for offices with more inventions than hours
We give tech-transfer offices and lab licensees the research capacity they rarely have in-house: landscapes, licensee lists, marketing packets, and pruning analytics. We work within your policies and claim no partnership with any institution.
§ 01Where you are
The seedling has to survive outside the greenhouse
Most offices that need technology transfer support face the same arithmetic. Invention disclosures arrive faster than a small team can evaluate them. Each one needs a decision about whether to protect it, and each protected family starts accumulating fees. Meanwhile the work that actually produces licenses, finding the right company and the right person inside it, gets whatever time is left.
Tech transfer is transplanting. An invention that thrives in a lab has to survive in a market with different soil, and the hardest part is rarely finding a company that could use it. It is finding the one product team whose problem it solves this year, and showing them evidence they can check. That is research work, and it is the work we do.
We map the field around a disclosure so your office can judge its commercial context. We identify companies whose products and filings suggest a real fit, using product-to-patent research and evidence-of-use research limited to technical facts. We prepare non-confidential marketing packets with clear visuals. Before each fee window, we rank which families to keep, market, or let go. Decisions about protection, licensing terms, and agreements stay with your office and its counsel.
The same work serves companies on the other side of the table. Startups and established firms that license university or national-lab technology need landscapes, clearance searches for their counsel, and evidence for grant proposals. See our page for startups and grant applicants.
§ 02Services
Services tech-transfer teams use
Licensee Identification
Evidence-backed target lists of companies likely to value a license, followed by warm, documented introductions with your approval.
3–5 weeks12Patent Landscape & Whitespace
Who is filing near a disclosure, how fast, and where the open ground is, to inform your office’s decisions.
3–6 weeks143D Visualization & Animation
Renders and short animations for marketing packets, showcase events, and first meetings with licensees.
2–4 weeks16Portfolio Pruning Analytics
Keep, sell, license, or lapse candidate rankings that weigh upcoming fees against market signals.
2–4 weeks18Commercial Patent Valuation
Cost, market, and income-based ranges with stated assumptions, for planning conversations about a family or a spinout.
2–4 weeks20Portfolio Administration
Public status and fee-window tracking, inventories, and management reports on Hoard Ledger, coordinated with your practitioners.
Onboarding in about 2 weeks§ 03A typical path
From a stack of disclosures to documented introductions
- 01
Triage the batch
On a scoping call, we agree which disclosures or families need landscapes, which need licensee research, and which need a pruning view.
- 02
Map the context
A landscape per technology shows who files nearby and where the field is moving, with the audit trail attached.
- 03
Build the target list
We identify likely licensees from products and filings, and name the business units where the fit is clearest.
- 04
Prepare the packet
A non-confidential summary and visuals your office approves before anything goes out.
- 05
Introduce and record
Documented introductions to the targets you approve, with every contact logged. Your office and counsel take it from there.
No partnership claims, and your policies first
We have no formal relationship with any university, laboratory, or agency, and we won’t imply one. We work under your office’s confidentiality rules and outreach approvals, and client materials are never used to train AI models. Read our full scope and disclosures.
§ 04Questions
Questions from tech-transfer offices
Something else on your mind? Call (505) 357-5188 or write to info@metadragons.com.
Who controls outreach to companies?
You do. We propose targets and messages, you approve them, and every introduction is documented. Nothing goes to a company without your sign-off.
Can you negotiate licenses or draft agreements for us?
No. We don’t draft, review, or negotiate agreements. Your office and its counsel handle terms. We coordinate logistics and keep the record of introductions.
How do you handle unpublished disclosures?
Under NDA, in US-based systems encrypted in transit and at rest. Client materials are never used to train AI models, and files are deleted on request within 30 days of project close.
Can pruning analytics tell us which patents to abandon?
They rank candidates by weighing upcoming fees against market signals and licensing prospects. The decision, and any legal review, stays with your office. See portfolio pruning.
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§Next step
Put a research team behind your office
Send us a batch, or a single disclosure. After a free scoping call, you’ll have a fixed-fee quote within one business day.