Changes

UVM has recently experienced a dramatic and precipitous drop in rankings of patents granted to universities. However, those rankings use ten-year cumulative patent grants, and patents can currently take several two years on average to be processed by the USPTO. Moreover, UVM could conceivably have been granted more increasing volumes of patents but failed either to keep up with its peers or with patent inflation, resulting in a relative decline.

[[File:UVMPatentFilings.png|right|400px]] UVM had its best year on record The dropoff in 2013 with 24 filingspatenting over the last five years is so large that I immediately suspected a right-truncation issue. However, the USPTO data underlying Google's Public Patent Data dataset does appear to have applications in it made just 4 filings in 2015, which was its lowest count since 1998, and then just a single filing in both of 2016 and 2017, which tie 33-year lows. Of courseThe grant date is set to 0 whenever the patent isn't granted. Moreover, UVMthe USPTO processing time just isn's own data may show material for 2018 and 2019t that long... ButSo, as it standsinstead, the results are suggestive of a structural change in UVM's patenting activities somewhere around 2013.

==NotesAdministration Timeline==

UVM's 26th President, Tom Sullivan, began his term in July 2012, and hired /appointed much of his administration in the following two years. Richard Galbraith was appointed VP of Research in July 2014. Suresh Garimella became the 17th President of UVM in October 2019. Garimella previously had notable success in spurring the development and commercialization of technology at Perdue University, where he was the inaugural Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships.