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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Unleashing American Innovation
NIST convened a symposium in April 2018 titled “Unleashing American Innovation”: On April 19, 2018, thought leaders from across government, industry and academia gathered in Washington, D.C., to discuss how we can work together to address systemic barriers to catalyze the … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon nanotubes, NIST
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The Basic Policy Question Behind Bayh-Dole
There’s one simple issue: Should the federal government subsidize with public funding for nonprofit research the creation of patent monopolies? There it is. The answer that has dominated for thirty-five years is “Yes.” How comfortable are you with that? Gut-level? … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Policy, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, federal funding, IPA, patent policy, research, scheme
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Institutional patent derangement syndrome
The discussion of university ownership of patents on inventions made in faculty-led research invariably adopts the singular. Consider one invention at one university. Now, doesn’t it make sense that university administrators should take over that invention for the good of … Continue reading
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Tagged institutional patent derangement syndrome, inventions, madness, nanotubes, patents
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Some reading for technology transfer professionals
Every so often I have asked people what articles ought to be required reading for people in university technology transfer. One great suggestion is David Teece’s “Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy.” Another has … Continue reading
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The bozonet on mount stupid
I mentioned “mount stupid” last week in a three-part article on the University of Utah. Mount stupid is a bit of a meme derived from accounts of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which I have referred to in developing an account of … Continue reading
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Tagged bozonet, dunning-kruger effect, mount stupid, technology transfer
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Whistling all the way to the bank, revisited 3
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
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, inventions, IPA, patents
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Available to one, developed by none, 1
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
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!
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
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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Tagged Bayh-Dole, compliance, contractor, invention, inventor, patent, patent rights clause
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