Tommy Martindale
Director, Technology Transfer
Innovation
Technology Transfer Office
Division of Research and Innovation
SDSU
Primary Email: [email protected]
Phone/Fax
Primary Phone: 619-594-0791
Building/Location
Gateway Center - 4523A
Bio
As Director of the TTO, Tommy Martindale is responsible for the protection and commercialization of technologies developed at SDSU. Tommy supports the TTO by evaluating the patentability and market potential for faculty inventions, managing the protection of faculty-developed intellectual property, and commercializing SDSU technologies through licensing. Tommy is a member of the State Bar of California and is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He also contributes to the teaching team of the NSF I-Corps program, training researchers how to move their research-based innovations out of the lab and into the marketplace. Tommy previously served as president of the San Diego Innovation Council.