Office of Technology Licensing congratulated by Feds

On Friday, April 30, the Office of Technology Licensing celebrated its 40th anniversary. The celebration included the reading of a proclamation from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director David Kappos. MICHAEL GOLDBERG, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and a GSB alumnus, read the following proclamation:

Please accept my congratulations on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing. You are truly the gold standard of tech transfer offices, fortunate to be blessed with the very finest technology coming from some of the world’s very finest laboratories; visionary in the practices you have long adopted that put lasting relationships and outbound collaboration first, that make Stanford researchers the centerpiece of your practice, and that optimize to fast diffusion of research technology into the commercial sector for maximum impact on California’s economy.

You have demonstrated the key tenet of leadership — the confidence that by doing the right thing your institution will also do well.

And well you have done! Beyond practically anyone’s dreams, other than perhaps those of your senior leadership!

Thank you for the leadership all these 40 years. Thank you for creating so many jobs, and businesses, and cool products! Thank you for showing us all how to do tech transfer at the gold standard level.

And best wishes for your next 40 years!

David J. Kappos

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office