Innovation Gateway can help evaluate inventions and ideas for patentability and commercial potential.
Faculty Looking for: Patenting & Licensing
Gauge the commercial viability of your idea or discovery, or whether it is suitable for a patent.

Derek Eberhart
Associate Vice President for Research and Executive Director
Innovation Gateway
Ensure that intellectual property is adequately protected.
Innovation Gateway helps UGA inventors protect intellectual property.

Derek Eberhart
Associate Vice President for Research and Executive Director
Innovation Gateway
Get information on obtaining and managing a patent.
Innovation Gateway obtains and maintains patents, trademarks, copyrights, and plant variety protections on behalf of UGA faculty.

Derek Eberhart
Associate Vice President for Research and Executive Director
Innovation Gateway
Find a company that will utilize my discovery.
Innovation Gateway engages industry partners to utilize UGA discoveries and bring them into the marketplace.

Derek Eberhart
Associate Vice President for Research and Executive Director
Innovation Gateway