UO researchers setting record pace for invention income

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November, 2003

Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard

They are as straightforward as a computer bridge game and as complex as monoclonal antibodies, but the innovations flowing out of the University of Oregon are setting records for both the number of inventions and the revenue they produce.

The UO's laboratories and research centers produced 36 inventions this year, a scorching pace that shatters the average of eight per year set between 1996 and 2000.

And existing university licenses brought in $1.82 million, another record-breaker that eclipsed the $554,000 that came in during the 2002 fiscal year.

"It's exciting news," UO President Dave Frohnmayer said Thursday. "It shows, among many things, that not only are there many practical and exciting...