Why disclose an invention or discovery to the Technology Transfer Office?
There are several reasons. 1) Disclosure to the Technology Transfer Office starts a process of protecting and commercializing the innovation which provides the greatest opportunity for the innovation to be used in practice for the public good. (2) The same process provides the greatest opportunity for the innovation to generate revenue to be shared among for the innovator(s) themselves and the Institute. (3) Empolyees of Roswell Park Cancer Institute are required (link) as a condition of employment or matriculation to disclose their inventions or discoveries.
