Triage

Page HellerPresident

Hopes Creek

HCC TechAssess Perform your evaluation and

prepare something you can use as a communication tool at the same time.

Five Major Categories

OWNERSHIP ISSUES STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT ABILITY TO PROTECT RELATIONSHIP MAINTENANCE MARKET

Organize your metrics into five major categories

Five Major Criteria

Pull-Down Answers to Questions

Graphical Results

Each Category has a set of questions and answers

Each answer generates a score that is summed for each criterion

TechAssess™ Graphical Results

Each Category has a speed dial showing strength and weakness

Examines areas that can complicate or cloud ownership

OWNERSHIP ISSUES

Freedom to Operate Looks at dependency on other patents

History Master agreements, MTAs, verbal agreements

Complications Obligations that involve other companies or

institutions through Joint Industry Programs or consortia

STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

Time to Market Longer time to market generally

increases risk Financial

How much will it take to get to market? Dependence

Does this product depend on others?

back of the napkin versus working model

ABILITY TO PROTECT

Public Disclosure Have some of the valuable aspects of the

invention been published? Degree of Novelty

Is this invention narrow or broad? Patent Landscape

Will you be entering a very aggressive area where many are patenting inventions?

Measuring difficulties with patents or copyrights

MAINTENANCE

Innovators How many innovators are involved and are

they cooperative? Outside Entities

Will you be reporting to other institutions, sharing royalties, and striking agreements with other organizations?

Determining the ease or difficulty in on-going management

MARKET

Market Location Perfect for…where, Lithuania?

Competition Who are you going up against?

Regulations A look at the hurdles ahead

Other Trendiness, significance, timeliness, public

perception

Takes a look at the commercial potential for the invention

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