Financial Support

This is a work in progress. The CANEUS Workshop Committee is in communication with government and private sources to assemble a team with investors from DARPA, and Air Force Research Laboratories. A top-down approach has been adopted, by first creating customer demand from the eventual end-use customers (e.g., large aerospace companies) prior to funding the eventual business to be formed around the system-development effort.


IP Issues

Scanning probe lithography (SPL) technique has been in existence for more than a decade. Despite the fact that the early patent applications for Dip Pen Nanolithogrpahy™ or “DPN” was filed in 1999 and issued in 2003, the reduction to practice for various forms of Fountain Pen Nanolithography or “FPN” was achieved by only three research groups worldwide – so far – since 2003P17,18P. CANEUS is confident that the decongestion of the market will be an advantage, and that the implications of the proposed nanolithography platforms will revolutionize vast markets.

The Pilot Project partners have entered into a Consortium Agreement, which takes into account the features of the new IPR regime. In that sense, the Consortium Agreement covers the areas of ownership and protection of knowledge, publication and dissemination of knowledge after the end of the project and granting of access rights.

Dedicated International Collaboration

The CANEUS Pilot Project Workshop Committee examined the types of international collaborations that best benefit the new business entity and help assemble a team composed of representatives from appropriate institutions. Some of these institutions include: DARPA, Air Force Research Lab as well as other commercial entities, such as Boeing, Airbus, and NanoInk.

Session Time and Speakers

CANEUS Panelists:

Minoo Dastoor (NASA – Exploration), Marc Shepanek (NASA – Chief Medical Office), Masto Sakurai (JAXA), Peter Wegner (US AFRL), Martin Lang (ESA ESTEC), Laurent Marchand (EDA ESTEC), Daniel Weihs (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology), Mohan S. Misra (ITN and Microsat), Kistu Bindra (Burns & Doanne USA), Walt Merrill (GMI), Deepak Srivastava (NASA – AMES)