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Category Archives: Policy
The faculty stack, 2: Basic Research and IP Policy
The idea I will pursue here is that university faculty represent a distinct and important kind of discoverer–researcher, investigator, noodler, gadgeteer, irrelevanteur, loon. Our search for what we cannot imagine depends in having at least some really capable folks out … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, History, Policy, Vannever Bush
Tagged basic research, free intellect, Vannevar Bush
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The faculty stack, 1: Academic Freedom and IP Policy
[The aim is to get to the next article, but I found myself writing this one first. How it goes. Purdue is the ground zero for what has become the Bayh in Bayh-Dole, so we may as well. Purdue has … Continue reading
Being blunt about Bayh-Dole operations
Let’s be blunt. If you are a federal contractor and you don’t take/accept ownership of an invention arising in federally supported research or development, you have no Bayh-Dole obligations with regard to that invention. You do not have to get … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, high priced medicines, Policy
Tagged 401.9, Bayh-Dole, scam, written agreement
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What has Bayh-Dole changed?
There’s a persistent claim made that Bayh-Dole somehow changed university technology transfer–started it, revolutionized it, and/or made it successful where it wasn’t before. Something pretty darned big, anyway. But nowhere in Bayh-Dole is there any hint that nonprofit technology transfer … Continue reading
The VPR Letters, No. 4
Dear Vice Provost for Research, It’s been a while, and I thought I would drop you another note to help you with your management of university-hosted intellectual property. I once was contacted by a vice provost of research at a … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Commons, Freedom, Policy
Tagged conflict of interest, exclusive license, exploiter, maximal, non-exclusive license, VPR
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 7
We have been working through the arguments for universities implementing one-size-fits-all licensing templates for their spinout companies, so that all spinouts are treated the same–as if university spinouts are all the same, or should be made to become all the … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged conflict of interest, FAST, spinout, startup
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 6
The University of Washington recently “rolled out” a “FAST start” template license agreement for university spinout companies–companies started by inventive researchers at the university to develop their inventions as commercial products. For spinout companies, the UW’s practice is to demand … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, bugblatter beast, FAST, Thorp
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 5
We have been discussing GeekWire’s account of the UW FAST start one-size-fits-all template agreement for startups. We showed that UW’s figures for startups were incorrect and there was little need for such a template. We then turned to H. Holden … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged FAST, public alternative, Thorp
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 4
H. Holden Thorp, editor in chief at Science magazine and formerly chancellor at Washington University and before that the University of North Carolina, published an editorial in Science, “An opportunity to improve innovation” that provides insight on the UW FAST … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, pathways, technology transfer, Thorp
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 3
GeekWire published an article about what UW calls its new scheme to shorten negotiations with its spinout teams–UW personnel who have invented in their research labs and want to start a company to develop applications and products for their inventions. … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Startups, Technology Transfer
Tagged bureaucracy, clownshow, spinout, startup, University of Washington, UW
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