Attention IU inventors: ARTI has a guidebook for you

Virtually everyone has had a dream of inventing something, has even mentally invented some wonderfully useful thing. But that is as far as many of us go. Some do turn the mental picture into physical reality, but then don't know where to go from there.

The university environment, however, has long been a spawning ground for inventions, and universities encourage them. Still, once something is created, it may not be easy to make the jump from creation to distribution. This has historically created problems for both individuals and institutions.

Indiana University's Advanced Research and Technology Institute (ARTI) is changing that. ARTI was "established to ease the process of moving an invention from the laboratory through the patent office and to the marketplace and to increase the number of successful transfers," says ARTI's new Guide for the University Inventor.

Watson

"The university creates and disseminates knowledge; technology transfer is part of the dissemination process," said Julie Watson, ARTI's vice president for technology transfer. "But it's a big responsibility. Often, getting the knowledge to the public involves commercialization, and then it must be protected by patents."

Guide for the University Inventor is now available either from a departmental ARTI representative or directly from the institute's office: 501 N. Morton St., Suite 111, Bloomington,

Ind. 47404; E-mail tto@ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu.

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