Make our inventions your innovations
The University has a large portfolio of medical, biomedical, engineering and environmental patents available for licensing to organisations like yours.
Whether it's a life-changing vaccine or a piece of time-saving technology, our intellectual property could become your Company's crowning glory. View our current patents for licensing portfolio.
Easy Access Innovation
The University of Birmingham has also recently joined the Easy Access Innovation initiative making some IP available for free.;
Our portfolio of Easy Access IP aims to increase the engagement between the University and industry to accelerate the transfer of university knowledge and expertise into the hands of the best commercial partner who can develop it to benefit the economy and society.
Contact Alta Innovations Ltd, the University's trading and commercialisation Company, for more information
To find out more about the Easy Access IP Initiative please visit www.easyaccessip.org.uk
Case studies
We have licensed many technologies in a wide range of sectors, including:
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Type of technology
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Licensee
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Pharmaceuticals
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Pfizer, Berlin Chemie, Acambis
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Diagnostics
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Circassia, Diagenode
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Medical devices
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CRT, Abcam, Serotec Morphosys, Beckman Coulter
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Plant biotechnologies
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Plant Biosciences
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Nanotechnologies
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Inanovate
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Software
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Astron Clinica, iSoft, WSI, Bitstream
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Publishing content and images
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Elsevier, Harper Collins, Wellcome Trust, Radcliffe Publishing
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