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News and Events > FY 2005-06 Members for the Committee on University Discoveries and TTO Business Advisory Board Announced

FY 2005-06 Members for the Committee on University Discoveries and TTO Business Advisory Board Announced

September 14, 2005

Committee on University Discoveries

The Committee on University Discoveries is composed of nine members chosen from University Governance and Administration according to Section 6 of the "Administrative Policy Statement on Intellectual Property Policy on Discoveries and Patents for Their Protection and Commercialization." The committee's two primary responsibilities are to review intellectual property policies and procedures, to implement them, and to serve as a board to hear appeals brought by university inventors concerning TTO actions. To date, no appeals have been brought to the committee.

  • Terry Boult, El Pomar Chair of Computer Communication and Networks, CU-Colorado Springs
  • John Carpenter, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, CU-Denver and Health Sciences Center
  • Carl Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, CU-Denver and Health sciences center
  • Tad Koch, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU-Boulder
  • Clayton Lewis, Professor, Computer Science, CU-Boulder
  • Robert Melamede, Associate Professor, Biology, CU-Colorado Springs
  • Rafael Sanchez, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, CU-Denver and Health Sciences Center
  • James Sikela, Associate Professor, Pharmacology, CU-Denver and Health Sciences Center
  • Phil Weiser, Director, School of Law, CU-Boulder, Committee Chair

Business Advisory Board

The TTO Business Advisory Board provides strategic advice to the TTO. The group meets three times a year and many of the members provide assistance to TTO on invention disclosures, commercial feasibility analysis and business plans.

Business Community Representatives

  • Greg Carlisle, Senior Managing Director, Limestone Ventures
  • Curtis Castleman, Chief Patent Counsel/Asst General Counsel, Tomkins PLC/The Gates Corporation
  • Chris Christoffersen, Partner, Morgenthaler Ventures
  • Doug Collier, Executive Director, Boulder Innovation Center
  • Tim Conner, Partner, Sequel Ventures
  • Midge Cozzens, President and CEO, Colorado Institute of Technology
  • Jerry Donahue, Board member, University License Equity Holdings, Inc.
  • David Drake, Director, Fitzsimons Bioscience Business Incubator
  • Larry Gold, Chairman and Chief Science Officer, SomaLogic
  • Bob Goodman, President and CEO, Phiar Corporation
  • Chris Hazlitt, Partner, Faegre and Benson
  • Gregory Johnson, Partner, Patton Boggs
  • Jim Linfield, Managing Partner, Cooley Godward
  • Mark Lupa, Partner,Tango, Inc.
  • Dallas Martin, Vice President and Intellectual Property Counsel, Level (3) Communications, Inc.
  • Catharine Merigold, Managing Partner, Vista Ventures
  • Bill Mooz, Senior Director, Utility Computing, Sun Microsystems
  • Chris Ozeroff, EVP, Business Development and General Counsel ARCA
  • Juan Rodriquez, Co-founder of StorageTek and Exabyte

CU Faculty and Administration:

  • David Allen, Associate Vice President for Technology Transfer, CU System
  • Alexander (Sandy) Bracken, Director, Bard Center for Entrepreneurship, School of Business, CU-Denver and Health Sciences Center
  • Michel Dahlin, Acting Vice President, Academic Affairs and Research, CU System
  • Robert Garcea, Professor, Pediatrics CU-Denver and Health Sciences Center
  • Paul Jerde, Executive Director, Deming Center, Leeds School of Business, CU-Boulder
  • Stein Sture, Associate Dean/Professor, Civil Engineering, CU-Boulder
  • Phil Weiser, Associate Professor, School of Law, CU-Boulder