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Fantasy depictions of technology transfer, 3
Despite all this discussion of university fantasy depictions of a technology transfer process, their invocation of the Bayh-Dole Act as their justification, and the reality that actual practice is nowhere like their depictions of process, success, or history, there are … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Innovation, Policy
Tagged 35 USC 287, ants, Bayh-Dole, Dean Baker, repeal
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Fantasy depictions of technology transfer, 2
The standard accounts of the “technology transfer process” seem so clear and plausible that you may well believe they are generally accurate, even if there might be “technical details” that they gloss over. But these standard accounts are largely, almost … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Innovation, Policy
Tagged AUTM, commercialization, counterfactual, process, technology transfer
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The FPR criteria for invention ownership–2
We are talking the proposed goals for federal policy on the disposition of inventions made in projects worthy of federal support, circa 1973, by way of a Department of Commerce committee report. The report recommended as goals for deciding ownership … Continue reading
The FPR criteria for invention ownership–1
In June 1973, The Executive Subcommittee of the Federal Council for Science and Technology’s Committee on Government Patent Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce, tasked with the codification of the patent policy established by President Nixon, made the following … Continue reading
Posted in History, Policy
Tagged availability, Bayh-Dole, expeditious, Federal Procurement Regulations
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Patent rights follow-up: from the FPR to BD–2
We are working through the Federal Procurement Regulations (1975) advice with regard to the exercise of rights in inventions made in projects receiving federal support. We have looked at the first part of the opening statement and made the point … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, expeditious, Federal Procurement Regulations
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Patent rights follow-up: from the FPR to BD–1
Here’s some advice in the Federal Procurement Regulations (1975) with regard to the operation of the patent rights clause covering subject inventions. Bayh-Dole is built from the ruins of the IPA program and the FPR by the same folks who … Continue reading
Research, Nonresearch, and CDC Policy 557
The Centers for Disease Control has a document–Policy 557–that lays out when Institutional Review Board involvement is necessary with regard to distinctions between patient care and the involvement of patients in research. Here’s the basic policy: CDC has an ethical … Continue reading
Bush v Kilgore v the Old Order v Now
In 2005, Nicholas Steneck at the University of Michigan taught a course in the history of science–“Science, Technology and Society–1940 to the Present.” Here’s his lecture outline for the part about federally funded science and engineering during World War 2: … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Sponsored Research, Vannever Bush
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Kilgore, NSF, Vannevar Bush
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Inventor freedom and the unexpected model of innovation, 1
Consider an alternative to the present university administrator mania for patenting. Let’s start with inventor freedom and then look once more at what I call Vannevar Bush’s unexpected model of innovation. There are difficulties in the effort. First, the social … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Innovation, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Contact, donkeys, inventions, rocket
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Peace measures
In 1917, in the United States, six million people suffered from syphilis. The only drug that offered some relief at the time was an arsenic compound made in Germany called salvarsan. The United States entered the first world war against … Continue reading