Category Archives: Technology Transfer

Whistling all the way to the bank, revisited 3

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Having established the contracting problem for government-sponsored “basic research,” let’s get into how the patent administration folks got into changing things around from government ownership to institutional ownership, when the institutions didn’t have policies and practices that swept up inventions … Continue reading →

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Available to one, developed by none, 1

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

A repeated argument regarding inventions made with federal support was that the public would benefit from these inventions only if companies invested substantial amounts of private capital in developing the inventions as commercial products. Without commercial development at private expense, … Continue reading →

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More Contempt of the Supreme Court at the NIH

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Here is more misrepresentation of Bayh-Dole from the NIH, the creator of Bayh-Dole, purporting to be advice for inventors: Under the Bayh-Dole Act, your institution as the grant recipient owns rights to the NIH-funded invention and has the right and obligation … Continue reading →

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Lower drug development costs than industry reports–shock!

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

At the SciScip discussion group notice has been given to an article published in September 2017 in JAMA that has determined the median cost to develop a new cancer drug at $648m, much lower than the pharmaceutical industry reports for … Continue reading →

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The Key Provisions of Bayh-Dole

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Now, with all that fusstation from the University of Pittsburgh out of the way, we might ask then what are the “key provisions” of Bayh-Dole that a university should make faculty and the public aware of. Only One Key Provision … Continue reading →

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The University of Pittsburgh’s Fake News Summary of Bayh-Dole, 4

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through the University of Pittsburgh summary of the Bayh-Dole Act, and I at least am getting increasingly grouchy as I do. How can someone writing for university faculty “innovators” get things so wrong in some many places? … Continue reading →

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The University of Pittsburgh’s Fake News Summary of Bayh-Dole, 3

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through the fake history published by the University of Pittsburgh regarding the Bayh-Dole Act and its “key provisions.” “Fake” is too light a word for it, but it’s trendy and so people get the general idea. Really, … Continue reading →

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The University of Pittsburgh’s Fake News Summary of Bayh-Dole, 2

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through the University of Pittsburgh’s account of the Bayh-Dole Act since AUTM has called it out as worth reading. We need to pause and consider some real history to work out of our imaginations the fake history … Continue reading →

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The University of Pittsburgh’s Fake News Summary of Bayh-Dole, 1

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

AUTM a few weeks ago pointed favorably to a description of the Bayh-Dole Act posted by the University of Pittsburgh. Let’s have a look, then. The post is titled “What It Means for Technology Commercialization.” While “It” is ominous in … Continue reading →

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Getting off your UFRDA

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

In 1981, Senator Harrison Schmidt introduced a bill to replace Bayh-Dole with a more general law regarding inventions made with federal support, the “Uniform Federal Research and Development Act of 1981.” It doesn’t appear that the university patent brokers had … Continue reading →

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