Protecting your Ideas, Inventions, and IP during Pitch Competitions

The Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship is to bring to you a workshop on Protecting your Ideas, Inventions, & IP during Pitch Competitions. This workshop will be given by Rafael Gacel-Sinclair, Technology Transfer Officer at Sacramento State's Office of Innovation & Technology Transfer (OITT), a unit of Sacramento State's Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development.

About Rafael Gacel-Sinclair:

Rafael joined Sacramento State in December 2021 to start up OITT; protect and commercialize Sacramento State innovations and Intellectual Property (IP); and educate and advise faculty, staff and students about innovation and IP.

Before joining Sacramento State, Rafael served 22 years in similar university offices – three years as a Technology Licensing Associate with the University of Hawai’i, and 19 years as an IP Analyst, Officer, and Associate Director with the University of California, Davis. Rafael has managed the patenting and/or commercializing of over 200 university inventions; has written, negotiated, and/or reviewed over 10,000 IP related contracts; and has helped bring in over $25 million in program and licensing income.

Before serving the Universities of Hawai’i and California, Rafael served the U.S. Marine Corps for 20 years, where he obtained a M.S. in Information Systems from the Naval Postgraduate School, M.B.A. from National University, and B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington.

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