Summary

Our Fellows are late-stage graduate students who are interested in learning more about the commercialization process, and about how to evaluate technology/intellectual property to determine its commercial potential. Following an interview and training process, our Fellows are assigned specific projects by BCM Ventures intellectual property managers to support our team’s efforts to analyze technologies and provide feedback to the BCM faculty community. Part of this process involves prior art analysis, which means that we evaluate an invention against the existing patent and scientific literature to determine if an invention might be patentable, and to determine whether BCM should file a patent application to protect it. In addition to intellectual property due diligence, our Fellows also prepare marketing materials that are sent to companies who may be interested in licensing and commercialization BCM’s intellectual property assets. The non-confidential disclosure is a short marketing brief that describes a technology’s key features and attributes that we think makes it an attractive candidate for commercialization. The experience our BCMV Fellows receive from their internship helps prepare them for careers in intellectual property law, venture capital, project management, technology transfer, and other career options.

Job Purpose

Provides postgraduates a temporary professional learning experience in which participants gain practical work experience related to a graduate’s field of study.

Must be a part of a formal program to train recent graduates in their specialized profession.

Job Duties

• Develops specific marketing summaries describing technologies and related intellectual property while identifying companies that are active within a particular market where the BCM technologies are likely to create value.
• Discovers strategic information on each company, market-specific intellectual property landscapes, and, to the extent possible, appropriate points of contact for business development.
• Performs technological and market feasibility assessments for nascent BCM technologies.
• Assists with intellectual property novelty and freedom-to-operate searches and other assorted intellectual property related tasks relevant to disclosed technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Completion of postsecondary applicable degree/training program.

Preferred Qualifications

• Must be enrolled as a full-time Baylor College of Medicine student in a master’s degree or Ph.D. program.
• At least in 3rd Year