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Music professor Dr. Jayne Standley developed the patented audio-feedback technology for the Pacifier Activated Lullaby (P.A.L.), that has been shown to improve non-nutritive sucking in low birth weight infants. read more

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Office of IP Development & Commercialization 2010 Levy Avenue Suite 276-C Tallahassee, FL 32306-2743 Ph: (850) 644-8637 Fax: (850) 644-3675 View Staff Listing

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The Office of Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization (OIPDC) assists faculty, staff and students move their innovative research results and creative work into public use by licensing to outside organizations to develop and market products based on FSU research. Click here to view our Mission Statement.

The OIPDC manages projects that span a wide array of activities that range from music and dance, to the hard sciences. This is achieved by working with faculty, staff and students to create invention and work disclosures. When disclosures show a potential for commercial success, the OIPDC staff seek intellectual property protection (copyrights and patents) for the research and/or creative work, then attempt to identify commercial partners to negotiate a license and option agreements for continued development. Alternatively, we may recommend that a faculty member create a new company to commercialize their own innovation. See a list of start-ups based on FSU technology.

If a technology is commercialized successfully, the revenues are distributed among the researcher(s), the research school(s) or department(s), and the FSU Research Foundation.

This Office is also the point of contact for outside organizations and individuals wanting to locate, for commercial or other public purposes, the skills, inventions, creative works and other resources of the FSU research community. See the current summary of FSU Technology Opportunities. The FSU Research Foundation's license / options terms are available to encourage early and widespread use of its intellectual output.