1. A Career in Intellectual Property as a
Biomedical Engineer
Sagar Nadimpalli
Technology Commercialization Analyst

2. BioE Career Areas
 Industry
 Medical Devices
 Clinical R&D
 Diagnostics
 Therapeutics
 Research
 Intellectual Property

3. BioE Career Areas
 Professional
 Medicine
 Dentistry
 Pharmacy
 Law
 Patent Law
 Academia

4. BioE Career Areas based on your degree
 Credentials
 BS
 Industry
 Professional
 Entrepreneurship
 Government
 MS
 Industry
 Professional
 Entrepreneurship
 Government

5. BioE Career Areas based on your degree
 Credentials
 PhD
 Industry
 Entrepreneurship
 Government
 Professional
 MD/PhD
 JD/PhD
 Academia
 Postdoctoral then Faculty Appoint

6. Concentration Areas
 Important that you expose and go outside of your
regular familiarity to be able to work out there as
a biomedical engineer!
 Take myself for example
 Cell and Tissue Engineer but really work as a clinical
engineer for my master’s degree
 This takes more than just C&T
o Computer Programming
o Imaging
o Bioinstrumentation
o Biomaterials
o Entrepreneur/Industrial coursework
o Neural networks (for image processing purposes)

7. How would you define your career?
 BEING CREATIVE!

8. Intellectual Property [IP]

9. A snapshot into the world of IP

10. What is it?
 Establishing recognizable rights to any creation
by an individual
 Consists of the following:
 Patents
 Trademarks
 Copyrights
 Trade Secrets

11. Why should you do it as a BME?
 Provides awareness and exposure to emerging
start-up technologies and/or companies which
deal with biomedical engineering
 Gains insight and experience of using appropriate
problem-solving and assessing skills as a
biomedical engineer to determine usefulness,
novelty and/or obviousness of a disclosed
technology
 Example - http://otm.uic.edu/technologies/early-
extraction-fetal-heart-sounds

12. What would HR look for an IP applicant?
 Skills in the following:
 Literature search
 Patent Searching
 Good scientific/engineering background
 Its not just about the good grades and coursework exposure
 Go out there and get your feet wet with experience!
 Problem solver, being analytical
 Technical Writing
 Depends on how far you choose to go!
 Tech-savvy
 An understanding of how the medical industry
works

13. My job at OTM
 As a Technology Commercialization Analyst, I….
 Screening disclosed inventions for potential
opportunity and assessment through the review
of current work in the field
 In parallel of the review, interviews are
conducted by the Tech. Manager with the
inventor and team
 A cumulative assessed report is produced by
the screener (me) to provide for my Manager to
present for the OTM team
 Additional Projects
 Marketing
 Faculty Outreach

14. OTM webpage
 www.otm.uic.edu

15. Final Thoughts
 If this information sounded great and interesting
and you wish to learn more, all of you have a
great opportunity coming up
 Friday March 22nd at noon (Location: TBA) – BioE
seminar about OTM and the career area of patents
by Jennifer Andrew JD (my manager)

16. OTM Team

17. OTM Team

18. Contact Info
 For IP and OTM related questions:
snadim3@otm.uic.edu
 For BioE as a career and other BME info:
snadim3@uic.edu

19. Q&A Session