Emerging Technology Program

UPstream works with emerging companies and helps identify their IP strategy, which is instrumental for recognition as a knowledge-based company with valuable intangible assets.

 

Qualifications

What we do

Upstream works with emerging, innovative and IP-rich ventures in the US and Canada, with the goal of turning breakthrough ideas into thriving companies recognized for the value of their knowledge-based assets.

For companies with less than $1 million in revenue:

Upstream will help them:

  • Develop their IP positions

  • Test and develop the minimum viable product in the market

  • Refine their problem/solution fit for optimal returns.

For growth companies, typically with less than $5 million in annual revenue:

We will help with:

  • Product strategy and execution

  • Partner relationships and financing.

  • Identify a company’s proprietary IP assets

  • Prepare an IP catalogue

Our Clients

Endolutions

 
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Client Background

Endolutions is a medical device development company that conceived of, developed and demonstrated the effectiveness of a surgical closure device. Their innovation is used in laparoscopic surgery, and it has now been licensed to New Wave Ends, who successfully launched the product in early 2019.

 
 

Auscultech Dx

 
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Client Background

AusculTech Dx is a Children’s National Medical Center spin-off working on translating and commercializing computerized auscultation analysis research. Entrepreneurs and inventors, who have translated novel technologies developed in academia to FDA-cleared products, make up the founding team.

 

IGI Tech

 
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Client Background

IGI Technologies is a University of Maryland-based startup focused on delivering high-speed image registration solutions to clinicians. Medical images taken of the same patient but on different equipment or at different times are difficult to overlay due to changes in the body from breathing, position, or morphology. IGI Tech corrects these misalignments automatically and on-demand. To achieve their level of accuracy and speed, IGI Tech leverages their patented algorithm that subdivides the registration problem and map it to a high-speed programmable platform: a graphics processor.