Courtships are delightful. People meet. They get to know about each other. Stories and knowledge are shared, all in the hope that a partnership results in a long-term relationship. And when it does, it is a beautiful thing. This, for me, is a useful (and simplistic) metaphor for our business of technology transfer and how entities interact. The technology licensing officer (TLO), researcher, and patent attorney collaborate to transform an invention into a patent. From ther