NSi’s Business Development Mangers are happy to meet with researchers or students at any stage of your research to provide advice on potential commercial value and to recommend a protection strategy. We manage and implement UNSW’s Intellectual Property Policy.

Once you have notified NSi of your invention/innovation, by completing a Notification of Intellectual Property form, a Business Development Manager (BDM) will be allocated to your project. The BDM will work with you to decide the best commercial path to take, with BwiseIP who work with us to monitor returns on the investments we make in intellectual property.

There are any number of options for commercialisation and NSi have the expertise to steer a technology in the best direction.

NSi can advise if a patent is the best option and at which stage this should be considered. If the research is new, inventive and useful, patent protection gives exclusive right to commercially exploit the invention for the life of the patent.

NSi will prepare and file the patent application with patent attorneys on behalf of UNSW.

Inventors are typically involved in discussions with potential commercial partners and once we are working with an organisation your involvement often continues through that partner sponsoring further R & D.

Inventors, or contributors, are often very aware of the potential value of their IP. It is helpful for NSi if the inventors can investigate and document their opportunity. This could involve an analysis of the particular innovation opportunity the IP is addressing, such as an unmet need or problem to solve. It should also identify the potential customers for the IP, or in the case of social inventions, those people who would benefit from the invention.

Patent and Product/Technology Searching

IP Australia
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/


Australian Patent specification

Worldwide Patent search engine

Government AusIndustry Website

NSW Government Industry Website

Australian Government trade organisation

The Association of University Technology Managers

Knowledge Commercialisation Australia

Licensing Executives Society of Australia & New Zealand

ASIC