NASA Patent Offices Need to Coordinate Much Better Than They Do

NASA LaRC Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License: Allotropica Technologies

… Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/.

NASA KSC Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Copyright License: Diversified Industries, C&IS Inc.

… Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov/.

Keith’s note: These two official NASA notices regarding a “Notice of Intent To Grant an Exclusive License” were both published in today’s Federal Register. Curiously, the notice from KSC says: “Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://technology.nasa.gov/“. Yet the LaRC notice says: “Information about other NASA inventions available for licensing can be found online at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/“. NASA’s patent people – in two different locations – have their notices issued simultaneously (they are on the same page) – yet they tell people to go to two different websites for the same official information – and in the case of the link used by LaRC – there is no website operating at http://techtracs.nasa.gov/.

One more example of how NASA’s technology folks simply do not coordinate with one another or pay attention to what they tell the public.

– NASA’s Technology Transfer Continues To Be Uncoordinated, earlier post

– Uncoordinated Technology Transfer at NASA, earlier post