Jim Deane
Title: Technology Licensing Specialist, College of Engineering
Phone: (734) 764-9429
Email: jdeane@umich.edu
Assistant: Susan Carpenter
Assistant Phone: (734) 647-7080
Jim Deane is a Technology Licensing Specialist with the College of Engineering Office of Technology Transfer & Commercialization. He is responsible for the management of the College's intellectual property, ranging from patent filing decisions, patent management, marketing of disclosures, negotiating license agreements, and maintaining and monitoring existing agreements.
Dr. Deane received his Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College and Doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He conducted astronomical research at the University of London before returning to the States for his MBA from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He then worked for eCornell, a distance-learning startup company and the Technology Transfer Division at Los Alamos National Laboratories.
At the Office of Technology Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jim was the project manager responsible for licensing software, medical & imaging devices and other disclosures in the physical sciences, as well as developing startup companies around university technology and working with the Keenan Flagler Business School on several joint entrepreneurial programs.
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