# University of Utah Technology Licensing Office

**Type:** resource
**Status:** Draft
**Confidence:** Medium
**Tier:** D
**Focus:** invention disclosure, university IP licensing, faculty startups, research commercialization, technology transfer
**Primary Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Utah Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Region:** Salt Lake City
**Map Location:** 303 Chipeta Way, #14, Salt Lake City, UT 84108
**Coordinates:** 40.7495, -111.8365
**Location Precision:** approximate
**Location Source:** https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/
**Website:** https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/
**Domain:** capital-programs, health-bio
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Relates:** cites [Official Website: University of Utah Technology Licensing Office](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/

## Summary

The University of Utah Technology Licensing Office (TLO) is the university's front door for invention disclosure, intellectual-property protection, licensing to industry, and faculty/researcher startup formation. It is the office formerly known as the PIVOT Center (and, before that, Technology & Venture Commercialization / Tech Transfer). For any University of Utah researcher trying to turn a discovery into a license or a company, this is the required institutional path — not an optional accelerator.

The office publishes a faculty commercialization guide, an available-technologies portal for industry partners, and events (I-Corps cohorts, Tech Tuesdays). Contact: 801.581.7792; 303 Chipeta Way, #14, Salt Lake City, UT 84108.

## Who It's For

- University of Utah faculty, staff researchers, postdocs, and students with a discovery, software, data asset, device, therapeutic, or other potentially protectable work
- External companies and investors seeking to license U of U technologies or partner on sponsored research that may generate IP
- Founders of U of U spinouts who need the licensing and startup-formation path clarified before fundraising

Not a fit for BYU, USU, or other-campus inventors (use that campus's tech-transfer office), or for Main Street businesses with no university IP.

## How To Use It

1. **Disclose early.** Contact the TLO before public presentation, thesis deposit, preprint, or conference talk that could count as a public disclosure. Call 801.581.7792 or use the contact form on https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/
2. **Read the faculty guide.** The office publishes a [Faculty Commercialization Guide](https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/inventors/faculty-commercialization-guide) covering disclosure through licensing and startup formation.
3. **Work the licensing path.** The office manages patent prosecution, market assessment, and license negotiation — either to an existing company or into a new spinout.
4. **Connect to the rest of the stack.** After disclosure/licensing is underway, Utah deep-tech founders often next use [Nucleus MarketEdge](nucleus-marketedge.md) (market discovery), [Altitude Labs](altitude-labs.md) (wet-lab residency), [Nucleus Grow](nucleus-grow.md) / [UTIF](utif.md) (SBIR), and [Nucleus Fund](nucleus-fund.md) (equity). See [Commercialize Research in Utah](commercialize-research.md).

## Best Fits

Best for U of U inventors who need the institutional IP door opened before talking to investors. The AUTM 2025 survey rankings the university publicizes (top-10 placements in disclosures, licenses executed, copyright licenses, new licensed technologies, and gross license income) are useful context for partners, but a founder should treat them as ecosystem signals — not as a substitute for contacting the office about their specific invention.

## Open Questions

- What is the current median time from disclosure to first licensing conversation, and how does it vary by college?
- How should agents distinguish "PIVOT Center" references still scattered across wiki and press from the current TLO branding without confusing inventors?
- Which companion programs (U2TAH Therapeutic Accelerator Hub, Lassonde, Center for Medical Innovation) have a formal intake handoff from the TLO versus a parallel path?

## Evidence

- [Official Website: University of Utah Technology Licensing Office](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/
- @theU announcement of the PIVOT → Technology Licensing Office rename · https://attheu.utah.edu/announcements/welcome-to-the-technology-licensing-office/
- Faculty Commercialization Guide · https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/inventors/faculty-commercialization-guide

## See Also

- [Altitude Labs](altitude-labs.md)
- [Nucleus Institute](nucleus-institute.md)
- [Commercialize Research in Utah](commercialize-research.md)
- [Huntsman Cancer Institute](huntsman-cancer-institute.md)
- [Where to Find Wet Lab Space in Utah](where-to-find-wet-lab-space-in-utah.md)