# University of Utah PIVOT Center

**Type:** resource
**Status:** Stub
**Confidence:** Medium
**Tier:** F
**Focus:** technology transfer, former name, redirect
**Domain:** capital-programs, health-bio
**Primary Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Utah Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Region:** Salt Lake City
**Website:** https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/
**Updated:** 2026-08-11

## Summary

"PIVOT Center" (Partners for Innovation, Ventures, Outreach & Technology) was the University of Utah's technology-transfer and licensing office name from 2020 until it was renamed the **University of Utah Technology Licensing Office (TLO)** on October 31, 2023. Same office, same staff, same 303 Chipeta Way address — new public name. This page redirects searches for the former name to the current office.

**Go to [University of Utah Technology Licensing Office](university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office.md) for the current page.**

## Who It's For

Anyone — human or agent — who arrived here searching for "PIVOT Center," "PIVOT," or an even older name for the same office (Technology & Venture Commercialization office, Tech Commercialization Office, Tech Transfer Office, Product and Patent Development Office). See [University of Utah Technology Licensing Office](university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office.md) for who it's for, how to disclose an invention, and how to license University of Utah technology.

## How To Use It

Follow the link to [University of Utah Technology Licensing Office](university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office.md for disclosure, licensing, and startup-formation guidance. The office's phone number (801-581-7792) and address (303 Chipeta Way, #14, Salt Lake City, UT 84108) are unchanged from the PIVOT Center era; only the public-facing name changed, in October 2023.

## Open Questions

- Does the pivotcenter.utah.edu domain still resolve to the current site? (Fetched 2026-08-11: yes, it served the same Technology Licensing Office content under the old domain, with no visible redirect notice — a trap for anyone assuming the domain name is stale.)
- **Confidence is capped at Medium because the rename has no primary record behind it.** The 2023-10-31 date, and with it this page's only substantive claim, rests on the university's own `@theU` announcement — an institution publishing about itself, which is self-reported, not primary. No registry can help: the office is an administrative unit, not a legal entity, so it has no EIN, UEI, or state registration, and federal award and patent records name only "University of Utah" or "University of Utah Research Foundation" regardless of what the office was called that year. The candidate primary records, neither yet checked: the revision history of the university's technology-commercialization policy in its Regulations Library, which names the responsible office and carries dated revisions, and Utah Board of Higher Education minutes if the change went before the board. If neither names the office, Medium is the ceiling for this page and that is the correct answer.

## Evidence

- [University of Utah Technology Licensing Office](university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office.md
- [University of Utah Technology Licensing Office Official Website](university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/university-of-utah-technology-licensing-office-official-website.md · https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/
- [Welcome to the Technology Licensing Office (@theU announcement, Oct 31 2023)](https://attheu.utah.edu/announcements/welcome-to-the-technology-licensing-office/) · https://attheu.utah.edu/announcements/welcome-to-the-technology-licensing-office/

## Maintainer Notes

- This redirect page also keeps legacy references elsewhere in the corpus from becoming dead ends.
- Several existing wiki pages ([Altitude Labs](altitude-labs.md), [Huntsman Cancer Institute](huntsman-cancer-institute.md), [Dave Bearss](dave-bearss.md)) still say "PIVOT Center" in prose, which is accurate for events that happened while that was the office's name (e.g., Altitude Lab's 2020 launch). Should those be edited to add the current name, or left as historically accurate?