NASA Kennedy Space Center TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

NASA Technology Transfer Program Overview NASA Technology Transfer Portal (T2P) – NASA's Technology Transfer Program ensures that technologies developed for missions in exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the Nation. http://technology.nasa.gov/ Patent Portfolio – The NASA patent portfolio is available to industry through partnerships and licensing agreements ensuring that NASA investments in pioneering research find secondary uses that benefit the economy, create jobs, and improve quality of life. http://technology.nasa.gov/patents Software Catalog – The NASA Software Catalog offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications. https://software.nasa.gov/ NASA Spinoff - NASA’s Spinoff publication serves as a tool to educate the media and the general public on the benefits of commercialized NASA technology and knowledge. http://spinoff.nasa.gov/

NASA's Technology Transfer Portal hosts information on all of the NASA-developed technologies available to your business. Our patent portfolio contains more than 1,200 technologies that have been organized into categories and made searchable so you can easily identify technologies suited for your business needs. NASA’s Patent Portfolio contains hundreds of technologies that Technology Transfer Specialists have identified as having commercial potential. Individuals can peruse the patent portfolio by category or search for specific key words.

Licensing Overview

Licensing: Startup, Evaluation, Nonexclusive, Partially Exclusive Evaluation License NASA offers an "Evaluation License" option that will allow you short-term permission to explore the potential of a technology and learn if it will fit into your business development goals. An evaluation license is also required if you intend to enter into an agreement to have NASA conduct testing on the technology on your behalf. https://technology.nasa.gov/evaluation All evaluation licenses are non-exclusive agreements. Most evaluation licenses last 1 year. There may be exceptions that would allow the evaluation license to extend past 2 years. No pro forma statement is required for an evaluation license application. If another company submits a license application and it is approved, all evaluation licensees will be provided a 30-day notice. Evaluation licensees are not permitted to commercialize or sell the technology. A traditional commercialization license agreement must be in place before any sales can take place. If there is a third-party company that will be helping the evaluation licensee in determining if the NASA technology is marketable, the third-party company must also submit a NASA research license in order to proceed with evaluation. A Space Act Agreement must be in place in order for the evaluation licensee to utilize NASA's expertise and/or facilities. https://www.nasa.gov/ames-partnerships/opportunities/licensing Nonexclusive License Grants intellectual property rights to an unlimited number of parties in a given field of use or geographic area. Partially Exclusive License Grants intellectual property rights to recipients (more than one) for a specific field of use or geographic area. Startup License By offering a license with no up-front costs for commercial use of our patented technologies, we're letting companies hold onto their cash while securing the intellectual property needed to carve out competitive market space.

Startup NASA Startup NASA – NASA is offering the opportunity to license NASA developed technologies with no up-front costs to startup companies created to commercialize these technologies. http://technology.nasa.gov/startup By offering a license with no up-front costs for commercial use of our patented technologies, we're letting companies hold onto their cash while securing the intellectual property needed to carve out competitive market space. These technologies have been vetted for technical and commercial viability by NASA and external sources. Patents are maintained and protected by the US Government. NASA technical personnel and facilities can be available to lend additional support. A Few Rules This offer is open only to companies formed with the express intent of commercializing the licensed NASA technology. NASA waives the initial licensing fees, and there are no minimum fees for the first three years. Once the company starts selling a product, NASA will collect a standard net royalty fee. This money goes first to the inventor and then to maintaining the agency's technology transfer activities and technology advancement. This announcement applies to only non-exclusive licenses, which means other companies may apply for similar rights to use the technology for commercial purposes. However, NASA will consider further exclusivity if the startup wishes to negotiate. Companies entering into these licenses are bound by all requirements in federal licensing statutes and NASA policies, including development of a commercialization plan and reporting on efforts to achieve practical application. While NASA does license to foreign entities, this start-up agreement is only available to companies in the United States.

Each year, Spinoff highlights NASA technologies that are benefiting life on Earth in the form of commercial products. We’ve profiled nearly 2,000 spinoffs since the publication began in 1976 — there’s more space in your life than you think! https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2019/index.html Spinoff profiles NASA technologies that have transformed into commercial products and services. About 50 spinoff technologies are featured annually in the publication, demonstrating the wider benefits of America’s investment in its space program. Spinoff is available online in multiple digital formats, and print copies are distributed to the public and to politicians, representatives at the United Nations, economic decision makers, company CEOs, academics, scientists, engineers, professionals in technology transfer, the news media, and many others. (To request a copy of the latest issue, contact us.) NASA has a long history of transferring technology to the private sector. The Technology Transfer Program was formally established in 1964 in response to a congressional mandate to facilitate the process, and the program has functioned under various names ever since, making it NASA’s longest continuously operated mission. Early publications about NASA inventions, made available to the scientific and engineering communities, resulted in feedback that indicated a broad interest in the private sector in acquiring and adapting NASA technology for commercial uses.

NASA Technology Transfer Program Network Directory

Contact Information: Websites: Jeff Kohler Technology Transfer Specialist 321-867-7158 Jeffrey.a.Kohler@nasa.gov Kurt Kessel 321-867-8480 Kurt.r.Kessel@nasa.gov Lew Parrish 321-867-5033 Lewis.m.parrish@nasa.gov Mikaela McShane Technology Marketing Specialist 321-867-1851 Mikaela.w.mcshane@nasa.gov Technology Transfer Homepage https://technology.nasa.gov Patent Portfolio https://technology.nasa.gov/patents Spinoff https://spinoff.nasa.gov/ Software Catalog https://software.nasa.gov/