Patent Palooza!
Patent Palooza! is an event hosted by the OTC to celebrate the UK Innovation Community. It recognizes UK innovators and successful commercialization deals of the previous fiscal year.
Patent Palooza! 2021
Patent Palooza! 2021 was held on Tuesday, November 9.
We recognized and celebrated amazing FY 2019, FY 2020, and FY 2021 UK innovators and their commercialization successes.
The third annual event was held March 26, 2019, at the Gatton Student Center. Recognition was given to innovators for patents, licenses & options, receiving SBIR/STTR grants, graduating UKAccel, and being recognized by the National Academy of Inventors.
Dr. Lee Todd Jr. was presented the inaugural Lee T. Todd Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship.
FY 2018 UK Innovator Honorees
Rodney Andrews
Douglas D. Archbold
Luke Bradley
Stephen Brown
Ravshan Burikhanov
Thomas Chambers
Joseph Chappell
Rolf Joseph Craven
Mark Crocker
Linda Dwoskin
Lei Fang
Xin Gao
Don Gash
Greg Gerhardt
Jim Griffioen
John Gurley
Kenneth F. Haynes
Chong Huang
Stephanie Jenkins
James Landon
Markos Leggas
Kristin Linscott
Chunming Liu
Kunlei Liu
Mark A. Lovell
Bert C. Lynn
Madhu Menon
Eric Jon Munson
Marta Nosarewski
Ayokunle Omosebi
Michael F. Potter
Dali Qian
Vivek Rangnekar
Moushumi Sarma
Michael Sheetz
James Simpson
Douglas Robert Strachan
Vitaliy M. Sviripa
Christopher Swartz
Hsin-Hsiung Tai
John S. Thompson
Jon Thorson
David S. Watt
Bruce Webb
Guoqiang Yu
Chang-Guo Zhan
Wen Zhang
Yu-Ming Zhang
Fang Zheng
2018
The second annual event was held March 27, 2018, at the Hilary J. Boone Center. Recognition was given to inventors on patents, inventors whose patents have been licensed, researchers and startup companies who have received SBIR/STTR grants, UKAccel graduates, and innovators being recognized by the National Academy of Inventors.
2017
The first annual event, held March 28, 2017, recognized 43 inventors for the 30 patents that were issued in fiscal year 2016. Special recognition - an engraved and framed plaque with replica patent - was given to Dr. Chang-Guo Zhan, who reached a milestone of receiving his 20th patent in 2016. He had 5 patents issued last year alone! Each inventor named on an issued patent in FY16 was given a coffee mug with the front cover of their patent printed on it.
Additionally, recipients of SBIR-STTR grants in FY16 were recognized, as well as inventors on patents for which a license agreement was executed.
