Establish IP Gatekeeper Position via SBIR Bottleneck Patents
- Organization
- National Science Foundation SBIR Program
- Sector
- Microbiome therapeutic SBIR awardees needing technical solutions to common development bottlenecks
- Location
- United States (USPTO jurisdiction)
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Executive summary
Current state
NSF awarded $305,000 SBIR Phase I funding to Endure Biotherapeutics for PKU microbiome therapeutic development, creating immediate capital pressure to spend on specialized vendor services within a 6-month timeline while constrained to technical feasibility testing only.
Market catalyst
NSF SBIR reviewer comments consistently flag specific technical bottlenecks in microbiome therapeutic applications, but awardees lack patented solutions to these problems, creating an IP white space for whoever identifies and patents the solutions first.
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