The NIH Office of Technology Transfer is an office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a United States federal government agency responsible for biomedical and public health research. The NIH Office of Technology transfer manages all intramural inventions from the NIH and FDA as mandated by the Federal Technology Transfer Act and related legislation. It was established in 1986 subsequent to the Federal Technology Transfer Act as a centralized group to oversee patent and license matters for all of the NIH Institutes and Centers. The office allows both agencies to better license their work for international use.