Royalty Report: Semiconductors, Material Composite, Electrical & Electronics – Collection: 270831

License Grant

Israelite University transferred technology to Israelite Licensee for a joint research program.

License Property

The technology with respect to the intellectual property developed under such agreement for any product, component, device or material that is used in the preparation of coated substrates meeting certain specifications (Licensed Film) and services resulting from the license.

Field of Use

Conductive films (in the nanometric or micrometric range), in particular transparent and conductive films are vastly used in the electronic, solar cells and optoelectronic industries and there is a continuous demand for films with improved features, i.e., conductivity, durability, flexibility as well as transparency and scaled down films.

License Grant

The Licensee has an exclusive worldwide license and rights to sublicense any and all intellectual property conceived or developed under its sponsorship at the University.

License Property

Currently, research and development of the licensee's flexible, thin-film organic photovoltaic (OPV) and inorganic Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technologies is being conducted at University's (Licensor's) research facility under the seven year 2013 Research Agreement dated December 20, 2013.

OPV are Organic semiconductors made from carbon-rich compounds with a structure tailored to optimize a particular function, such as responsiveness to a particular range of visible light. The use of organic compounds as semiconductors for commercial applications is very new.

Field of Use

Licensee is using it in organic semiconductor based photovoltaic cell technology.

OPV are Organic semiconductors made from carbon-rich compounds with a structure tailored to optimize a particular function, such as responsiveness to a particular range of visible light. The use of organic compounds as semiconductors for commercial applications is very new.  The Licensee is using it in organic semiconductor based photovoltaic cell technology. A particular advantage of OPV technologies is the low cost of the materials used for the solar energy generating layers. Additionally, all of the fabrication temperatures are low and environmentally “green”, greatly reducing the ancillary costs required in conventional solar cell production.  Furthermore, the growth of the thin film layers can be accomplished directly onto the plastic or metal foils and therefore is no need for energy-intensive and expensive epitaxial growth required by inorganic semiconductors such as silicon or GaAs. Rather, there is the opportunity to “print” organic solar cells onto continuous rolls of plastic in an ultra-high-speed manufacturing process. The potential for printed electronics – making solar cells “by the kilometer” rather than on one substrate at a time – makes OPV a potentially revolutionary step in the widespread acceptance and deployment of solar energy. Since the organic films are see-through, lightweight and extremely thin (in this case the entire structure is only 0.1% the thickness of a human hair), they can be made semitransparent and adjusted to any desirable color. As a result, there are significant opportunities to achieve heretofore unrealizable applications such as car paint that allows vehicle coating to act as a source of power for an electric car; windows that can be coated with a clear semi-transparent film that captures photons from the sun to provide power for inside of the building, and fabric that can be made coated in order to make clothes, tents, flags, or lightweight roll-out power mats.

Since the organic films are see-through, lightweight and extremely thin (in this case the entire structure is only 0.1% the thickness of a human hair), they can be made semitransparent and adjusted to any desirable color. As a result, there are significant opportunities to achieve heretofore unrealizable applications such as car paint that allows vehicle coating to act as a source of power for an electric car; windows that can be coated with a clear semi-transparent film that captures photons from the sun to provide power for inside of the building, and fabric that can be made coated in order to make clothes, tents, flags, or lightweight roll-out power mats.

License Grant

The Licensor, a University, hereby grants to the Licensee an exclusive as to all parties, including Licensor, world-wide, transferable License in the Field, with the unrestricted right to subLicense at any tier to any person or party under the Patent Rights, to discover, develop, make, have made, import, have imported, use, have used, sell, have sold, offer for sale, have offered for sale, and otherwise exploit Products and to practice all other applications; and to copy, use, display, prepare derivative works of, and distribute all of any portion of Related Technology.

License Property

Product means any optoelectronic component or device for any product or any process in the Field, whose manufacture, use, sale or import would, absent the license granted hereunder, infringe one or more claims of the Patent Rights.

The Licensor has been engaged in basic research in the field of gallium arsenide-based technology for development of integrated optoelectronic components, and devices for communication.

Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic. It is a III/V semiconductor, and is used in the manufacture of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells and optical windows.

Field of Use

Field means all optical, electronic, and optoelectronic integrated circuit applications, including but not limited to components and devices for communications, computing, and imaging.

License Grant

The Latvian Licensor further hereby grants to Licensee a nontransferable, exclusive, perpetual license to use Licensor's technical information and other technology existing at the date hereof to put metals with a thickness of 0.1 microns to 5 microns on flexible polymeric substrates in order to produce and sell products, including without limitation the ability to put active and passive electronic components on thin substrates.

License Property

The Licensor, has over a period of years developed and patented valuable technology for depositing various metals onto metal foils, films and fabrics in a vacuum.  The Licensor has developed technology for the deposition of various metals on metal foils and onto films. This technology which employs innovative equipment developed by the Licensor can be used in the production of copper laminates and foils.

Metals as used in this Agreement include, without limitation, copper, aluminum, chrome and lithium, and composites of one or more metals.

Products as used in this Agreement include, without limitation, flexible composites of metals and films, flexible printed circuits, Multichip Modules, single and several chip packages, batteries and displays for use within the electrical interconnect industry.

Field of Use

The Licensee, a leading maker and supplier of ceramics and metal coated foils, films, and fabrics desires to be licensed under the Licensor's patented technology for depositing various metals on metal foils and on polyester film in a vacuum in order to further develop the technology and to market products generated by this technology according to the terms of this Agreement.