TI:GER(R) Program

Professor Nicole Morris has agreed to serve as the inaugural director of the Innovation and Legal Tech Initiative (ILTI).

Emory Law students will be a critical part of commercializing NNSA lab technology

Emory Law students will be a critical part of commercializing NNSA lab technology

Professor Nicole Morris, director of the TI:GER (Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results) program, will serve as principal advisor for the inaugural HBCU IP Futures Collaborative, a program that will connect leading faculty at HBCUs to foster best practices for teaching IP to non-law students.

A Georgia couple took a fan photo of Cam Newton that was later used to create a fake scenario (retweeted by ESPN and others) about the quarterback joining the Patriots. They felt wronged. Professors Tim Holbrook and Nicole Morris, both experts in IP, tell Fox 5 about one’s options when your social media posts are appropriated.

Emory Law Professor Nicole Morris will participate in the Federal Trade Commission's, "Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century," a two-day event held in Washington, D.C. Morris will speak at the Oct. 23 roundtable, "Understanding Innovation and IP in Business Decisions," moderated by Suzanne Munck, the FTC's deputy director and chief counsel for intellectual property.

"Entrepreneurship is a journey which involves both discovery and markets," Bernie Carlson writes in Forbes. "The (TI:GER) Technological Innovation: Generating Economic Results program creates teams which combine a PhD. scientist or engineer, two MBA students and two law students from Emory University in order to commercialize a new technology."

Blockchain technology has the potential to dramatically change document storage management and to transform how people authenticate a variety of transactions. It also stands to reinvent the time-consuming processes of writing, revising, and handling contracts.

Team BanyanTech won Georgia Tech¿s 2016 Startup Competition with a device that can remove heat from personal electronic devices. The prize, $10,000, was the top in the contest in which TI:GER teams swept first, second, and third places.

The inaugural TI:GER conference will be held at Emory Law Jan. 29, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 2016 TIGER Innovation Conference: Solutions in Healthcare brings together professionals from law, business, and medicine to discuss innovative solutions in healthcare and the current trends in the commercialization of healthcare technology.

Team Viapore, a TI:GER team consisting of an Emory Law student and Georgia Tech MBA and PhD students, won the April TiE Atlanta Young Entrepreneurs University Competition with their medical device for spinal implants.

Five enterprising students and their implantable device for pets won first place at the 2015 Georgia Tech Startup Competition. The first-year TI:GER® team beat out 11 other finalists with their pitch for a device that will monitor and, ultimately, regulate blood glucose levels in cats and dogs.

A team of students from Georgia Tech and Emory University hope to parlay their class project into a startup that could put its innovative medical device in hospitals and medical clinics across the country.

Emory Law and Georgia Tech TI:GER students scored sixth place win in international competition.

Emory Law students dominated at regional and national tourneys.

CheckDroid from the Georgia Tech/ Emory Law TI:GER program won the Startup Madness competition at North Carolina State University.

TI:GER team LymphaTech was selected as a semifinalist in the 2014 New Venture Championship.