PRLog (Press Release)– May 18, 2011– Clean energy inventor Aron Workman stifled by university bureaucracy
GAINESVILLE, Florida – 18 May 2011 – Aron Workman, a 21-year old inventor and entrepreneur, has been attempting to commercialize quantum technologies he independently discovered for over a year, but he says the University of Florida is standing in his way. Before founding his company focused on clean energy development and novel therapeutics, Workman was a student at the University of Florida, where he performed volunteer research attempting to find treatments to neuromuscular disease. Because of this relationship with the university, the university asserted full ownership rights without any substantial basis:
In an email prepared for the university on June 29, 2010, Workman's advisor Dr. David Borchelt agreed that "the fundamental discoveries of this invention" occurred before Workman began work in university laboratories. That email rc helicopter and car market place also confirmed that, on May 26, 2010, Dr. Borchelt stated "this research was not supported by a grant," implying immunity to the Bayh-Dole Act. Dr. Borchelt also agreed that Workman was "sole inventor and [that] no one else has contributed to the concepts or experiments in support of this invention."
Despite these facts and others presented to the University of Florida, their Office of Technology Licensing has doggedly insisted an agreement whereby the University of Florida wholly owns the resultant patents. At first, Workman eagerly agreed to negotiate a license in effort to advance the invention to market as quickly as possible. However, it took six months of waiting for that license proposal to arrive, and when acura it did it called for an immediate five digit fee and millions of dollars in milestones and equities.
In order to raise sufficient capital to proceed with development, Workman requires the freedom to operate his patents; and in order to acquire the freedom to operate, Workman requires substantial capital to pay off the university. Workman claims the university's demands have placed him in a year-long legal and financial grid-lock whereby he cannot proceed with the development of the invention. Workman said "I would like to give back to the University, I am open to that discussion, but unfortunately their black and white ownership claims are preventing anything from happening altogether."
Workman has said that "every day this invention is stalled by the University of Florida is another day Americans wonder how they are going to pay at the pump" and that "this quantum discovery has the potential to solve the world's energy crisis, but the university won't let us put that to the test".
Workman claims this is "David versus Goliath, where the University of Florida feels that as an institution they are omnipotent enough to squash my individual entrepreneurialism." Workman said "I remain committed to creating jobs, building my community, and generally providing high demand products to market as quickly as possible. But unfortunately I have not yet found that same level of commitment within auto part the university bureaucracy."
This week is National Small Business Week. Last week President Obama highlighted his interests in clean tech entrepreneurialism in his weekly address.
Interview contact: Aron Workman, Executive Directo bmw r of AXOXY Labs Telephone: 1086274749 (954) 218-2376 Email: aron@axoxy.com Web: http://www.axoxy.com Address: 3020 SW Archer Rd Ste 31, Gainesville FL 32608-1821
Interview contact: David Day, Director of the University of Florida's Office of Technology Licensing Telephone: (352) 392-8929 Email: dlday@ufl.edu Web: http://www.research.ufl.edu/otl/index.html Address: Walker Hall 310, the University of Florida campus, Gainesville FL 32611-5500
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