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Intellectual Property Partners (IPP)

Stony Brook Medicine (Stony Brook University)

Last reviewed August 30, 2026

Intelligence summary

Program at a Glance

Program mandate
Intellectual Property Partners is the technology transfer office for Stony Brook University, including the researchers and clinicians of Stony Brook Medicine. The office manages invention disclosures, patent filings, licensing agreements, confidentiality agreements and material transfer agreements on behalf of university and medical inventors.
Organizational model
Academic · Nonprofit
Location
Stony Brook, New York
Program types
Technology transferEntrepreneurship
Commercialization pathways
LicenseSpinoutStrategic partnership
Focus areas
ClinicalWorkforce
Public scale or maturity signals

Documented successes: Over the five-year period ending June 30, 2025: $16.64 million in royalty income, 361 invention disclosures received, 149 US patents issued and 548 US patent applications filed; faculty spinout Qunnect founded by researcher Eden Figueroa

Official engagement route
Program website ↗Health system website ↗
Last reviewed
August 30, 2026

Mandate and remit

What This Program Does

Intellectual Property Partners is the technology transfer office for Stony Brook University, including the researchers and clinicians of Stony Brook Medicine. The office manages invention disclosures, patent filings, licensing agreements, confidentiality agreements and material transfer agreements on behalf of university and medical inventors. It also supports new venture creation through programs such as Brook & Beyond and the campus NSF I-Corps site, helping faculty and student teams test commercial hypotheses and spin out companies. IPP markets available technologies to industry and negotiates the resulting license and option agreements. Companies engage by licensing Stony Brook intellectual property, sponsoring research, or partnering with faculty spinouts such as the quantum communications company Qunnect.

Areas of Focus

ClinicalWorkforce

Commercialization Pathways

These routes appear in the program's sourced public record.

Publicly Reported Outcomes

  • Documented successes

    Over the five-year period ending June 30, 2025: $16.64 million in royalty income, 361 invention disclosures received, 149 US patents issued and 548 US patent applications filed; faculty spinout Qunnect founded by researcher Eden Figueroa

Contact the Program

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Program phone
(631) 632-9009
Official contact page
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Sources and Updates

Reviewed August 30, 2026. External source links open in a new tab.

  1. Intellectual Property Partners (IPP) official source stonybrook.edu. Accessed August 30, 2026.

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