Category Archives: Patents

An odd statement of government interest in a Navy “UFO” patent

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Gerald Barnett

Here’s US patent 10322827. One of the “UFO” patents. It’s interesting physics, if not controversial, for being innovative in an institutional world that has made innovation mostly boring. But we are concerned with something else here.

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Madison on the patent clause–and Young Frankenstein

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Gerald Barnett

James Madison, writing in the Federalist (43), discusses the Constitution’s patent clause. The discussion is brief, so here it is, with comments: A power “to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing, for a limited time, to … Continue reading →

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Administrative lupus

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

I while ago I wrote an article on some suggestions for changing Bayh-Dole. The first suggestion was to add a research “exemption.” The authors–one a former senior university patent administrator from a very big university–were well meaning, and perhaps there … Continue reading →

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