Dr Avtar Gill

Dr Avtar Gil and Joanne Curry attending the CeBIT awards 

ceremony.

Dr Avtar Gill originally trained and worked as a doctor for 20 years before starting his IT studies at the University of Western Sydney, since then Avtar has made some great achievements and contributed significantly to the University.

Avtar’s combined knowledge of health and IT lead him to develop a health and wellbeing smart phone application. “My work in medicine has given me an understanding of the health needs of Australian society” for which he received the 2012 NASSCOM Innovation Student Award at the CeBIT conference (pictured left). The CeBIT awards recognise outstanding achievement in the information and communication technology industry.  

Avtar also attended the Innovation boot camp held at Australian Technology Park Innovations (ATPI). The boot camp explored ways to commercialise research through practical case studies, workshops and networking. The topics touched on legal, theoretical and practical aspects of innovation, “Its best moments were when local entrepreneurs gave their experiences and lessons learnt during their journey”.  The camp emphasised “the three P's, Patience, Perseverance and Persistence” as the keys for any budding inventor/entrepreneur. “For me the Boot camp take home message was ‘If you have a dream-do it’ which is what I am doing.”

Avtar was also able to take part as the student representative in the UWS Innovation Intellectual Property Evaluation Panel. The UWS IP Panel is the University’s method of assessing a projects commercial potential. UWS staff and students can present their innovations to the experienced panel with the prospect of securing support for provisional patent protection, full patent protection, prototype development support and general commercialisation advice. UWS Innovation and the IP Panel are keen to help students and staff with their commercial needs and to increase commercial awareness.  “I have learned much from the pitches presentation discussions and feedback that day. I think this was an invaluable experience for any UWS student to be granted such privilege invitation.”

If you would like the opportunity to sit on the IP panel as an HDR student representative, please contact Victoria Hirst at UWS Innovation on (02) 9685 9742 or email v.hirst@uws.edu.au

The IP Evaluation Panel dates for 2013 are:

»» Friday, 24 May 2013

»» Friday, 12 July 2013

»» Friday, 13 September 2013

»» Friday, 29 November 2013

If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.

 

TechVouchers Open for Applications

TechVouchers round 2 is now open for applications!!!

TechVouchers are Government grants available for small to medium businesses looking to work with public sector research organisations located in NSW.

“Through TechVouchers, you can connect with an expert in your field and engage on a joint research project, or you could access high tech instruments and facilities for testing and feasibility studies.”

The competitive grants can be up to $15,000 worth of support from the NSW Government, which must be matched by the business and are valid for 6 months.

TechVouchers can be used to fund a range of project types including:

•        Collaborations with research organisations
•        Projects that will lead to ARC, RIB or CA grants
•        Access to research facilities and equipment
•        Product or process design
•        Technical assistance
•        Trial production runs
•        Validation/demonstration of technical capabilities
•        Toxicology studies

For more information or to apply visit http://ww3.business.nsw.gov.au/TechVouchers/Home.aspx

To enquire about collaborations with the University of Western Sydney, please contact ip@uws.edu.au or Corrine Turner at c.turner@uws.edu.au.

If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.

Equipment Access

NMR Facility (Campbelltown)

The University of Western Sydney has a wide range of high end scientific equipment available for commercial use. UWS Innovation has set up the Equipment Access Platform to enable students, staff and Industry to gain easier access to this equipment. The equipment is located within the Universities specialised research facilities, each with their own Research Manager to enable quick professional access and assistance.
 
Advanced Materials Characterisation Facility (AMCF):
The AMCF is run by Research Manager Dr. Richard Wuhrer, and has a wide variety of instruments for biological and non-biological characterisation including:
» SEMs
» XRDs
» AFM
» Micrometrics
» EM Probe
» Thermal Characterisation
 
Confocal Bio Imaging Facility (CBIF):
The CBIF is run by Dr Anya Salih and Liz Kabinoff, and consists of Confocal and light microscopes that can image dynamic events in live cells, plant or animal tissues in 3D, analyse movement of genes and proteins and map elements in living or inorganic samples.
 
Mass Spectroscopy Facility:
The Mass Spec Facility is run by Dr. David Harman and offers access to advanced mass spectrometry, either direct sample analysis (infusion of samples in solution) or coupled to ultra high performance liquid chromatography (nanoflow or conventional).
 
Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy Facility (SIMS):
The SIMS Facility performs depth profiling analysis and is able to determine surface and near-surface composition in materials and detects elements ranging from hydrogen to uranium in parts per billion.
 
Next Generation Genome Sequencer:
The UWS Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment has a sequencing suite incorporating Sanger and Next-generation Sequencing Platforms and is run by Dr. Caroline Janitz.
 
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility (NMR):
The University’s top of the line NMR Facility is a National leader in diffusion and imaging.

For more information please visit our Equipment Access website at 
www.uws.edu.au/innovate/innovate/equipment_booking/instrumentation or contact ip@uws.edu.au or Victoria Hirst at v.hirst@uws.edu.au or on 02 9685 9742             

If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.

2013 UWS Intellectual Property Evaluation Panel

If you have an invention that you would like to report to us please complete our Short (1 page) Invention Disclosure form or Full Invention Disclosure form which can be found at: http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate/innovate/ip_management_and_investment/inventors  
 
If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.

Carnegie Mellon wins $1.17 billion in patent case.

Carnegie Mellon wins US$1.17 billion in patent case

The jury in U.S. District Court found that Santa Clara, California based Marvell Technology Group and Marvell Semiconductor Inc. infringed patents from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).  

Professor Jose Moura and then student Alek Kavcic developed technology which increased the accuracy with which hard-disk drive circuits read data from high-speed magnetic disks.

It was found that Marvell not only infringed the CMU patents but did so knowingly and had no reasonable defence. They awarded $1.17 billion in damages to CMU.

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If you have an invention that you would like to report to us please complete our Short (1 page) Invention Disclosure form or Full Invention Disclosure form which can be found at: http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate/innovate/ip_management_and_investment/inventors  

If you have any questions concerning Intellectual Property or Commercialisation please refer to the UWS Innovation website http://www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact us on ip@uws.edu.au.

UWS Innovation Inventor Awards

Anna Grocholski (UWSI), Gary Dennis, 

Kathryn Sunn (UWSI), Michelle Camenzuli, 

Scott Willis. A selection of the inventors 

with their inventor mugs.

The University of Western Sydney’s commercial arm, UWS Innovation, held their second annual Inventor Awards on Tuesday 18^th December.

Inventors from the University were invited to a celebratory event to recognise their contribution to the UWS intellectual property portfolio and be presented with the Universities gratitude and an Inventor’s Mug.

The University would like to thank all of its inventors for their hard work and innovative ideas throughout 2012.

For more information about intellectual property or commercialisation within UWS please visit our website at www.UWS www.uws.edu.au/innovate or contact UWS Innovation at ip@uws.edu.au.