As university vice president for Technology Development and assistant general counsel for the university, Anil Gollahalli directs the commercialization operations of the OTD and provides intellectual property counsel. A Norman native, he returned to OU in 2006, after practicing law in Dallas, first with Jenkens & Gilchrist P.C. and later Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. Gollahalli has extensive experience in the intellectual property fields of patent, copyright and trademark law, and has additional expertise in licensing.

Gollahalli earned his chemical engineering degree from OU in 1997 and his law degree from the University of Chicago in 2000. After law school, he served as law clerk to the Hon. Lee R. West, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Gollahalli also is licensed to practice before the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office and is active in the American Bar Association and American Intellectual Property Law Association.