Who we are
Biofusion Licensing is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Biofusion Trading Ltd. for identifying, developing and licensing IP that would not otherwise be suitable for establishing spin-out companies.
We are a specialist company that identifies, develops and licenses world class university IP to commercial companies and research organisations and our website is a licensing portal for identifying licensing opportunities within the Biofusion technology pipeline.
What we do
Biofusion are actively seeking licensees that are interested in acquiring the rights to selected technology opportunities available from Biofusion's university partners or from within Biofusion licensing itself. All the technology opportunities listed on this site are available for licensing and we welcome contact from any organisations interested in discussing the technology further or wishing to develop the opportunities commercially.
How we do it
Biofusion receives invention disclosures from its university partners and evaluates these disclosures for their commercial possibilities, and when possible licenses them to industry. If we successfully license a technology, the royalties are distributed between Biofusion, the university partner and the academic inventors of the technology.
We typically begin by reviewing an invention with its academic inventor to learn more about the technology, its state of development and what the potential applications or products might be. We then develop a commercial strategy, often considering the opinions of external consultants and industry sector experts. After assessing the technology, we put in place a commercial plan to develop the technology and decide when to protect the intellectual property (if appropriate). We then actively seek feedback on the technology from relevant commercial organisations and use this information to help guide the commercial plan for the technology. By doing this we hope to offer technologies that are relevent to real problems facing a wide range of sectors.
The majority of Biofusion's portfolio opportunities are the subject of patent applications but we also offer opportunities that involve copyright (software), trademark licensing, and Material Transfer Agreements/Licences for biological material sales.
You can access descriptions of our technology opportunities in a number of ways. You can either search our database using full text searching from the search boxes, look at opportunities broken down by product type (e.g. software, medical device, etc.) or simply browse the full list. If you take the latter option, you will find that we have colour coded the opportunities by product type to make it easier to pick out the opportunities that you are interested in. Material sales (e.g. hybridomas and other cell lines) are listed under the materials sales section of the website.