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TTO Tech = technologies actively marketed for licensing by university offices · Patents = filings from EPO & national offices · Papers = academic publications · Researchers = inventors & authors

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Freedom to Operate (FTO) Opportunities

Lapsed patents are no longer legally protected — the technology is in the public domain. You can use, manufacture, and build on it freely. 9,486 such patents exist in this database.

9,486Lapsed patents

1,657In therapeutics

1,515In diagnostics

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TTO Technologies — 3,121 listings

Source

University TTO portals & commercialisation offices

Coverage

84 universities — Europe (191)

What it is

IP actively marketed for licensing, spinouts, or collaboration. Not all university patents appear here.

Updated

March 2026

Patents — 68,854 families

Source

EPO Open Patent Services (OPS) — covers 90+ national patent offices

Coverage

191 universities, filings 1996–2026 (main body 2010–2025)

Offices

WIPO (WO), EPO (EP), USPTO (US), CNIPA (CN), IP Australia (AU), and others

Updated

March 2026

Patent status:

Active — currently in force

Pending — application under review

Lapsed — renewals stopped early

Expired — full 20-year term completed

Withdrawn — applicant abandoned

Papers — 17,291 publications

Source

Semantic Scholar (Allen Institute for AI) — index of 200M+ academic papers

Coverage

2010–2025, filtered for commercial relevance by sector and author affiliation

Open access

98% freely readable — links go directly to full text or DOI page

Updated

March 2026

All data is aggregated from public sources. Patent families group related filings across countries under a single record. Lapsed and expired patents represent potential freedom-to-operate opportunities. The 11,875 patents with unknown status are filings where legal status data was not available from EPO OPS at time of collection. For corrections or additions, contact us.

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