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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 4
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 One might see how, if university administrators believe that they have become, for invention purposes, the federal sponsor of the research, that they could also come to believe … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, deliverables, institutional conflict of interest, IPA, Kennedy, patent agreement, patent policy, posi, presumption, WARF, Wisconsin
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 3
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 In most cases, a principal investigator will know immediately whether an invention or discovery is within scope of a well drafted research agreement–is this invention something that was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, IPA, private risk capital, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 2
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 In the new 1969 Wisconsin patent policy, we encounter a corporate agent and the passive voice: “it has become necessary for the University to scrutinize with care the … Continue reading
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Tagged disclosure, institutional patent agreement, invention, IPA, Kennedy, WARF, Wisconsin
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1
Tucked into Congressional testimony in 1978 on expanding the Institutional Patent Agreement program is the 1969 University of Wisconsin patent policy. This policy is notable for a number of reasons. First, because it is an actual policy statement on patents, where … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, IPA, patent policy, uncertainty of title, WARF, Wisconsin
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Actual reduction to practice
In working through some of the legislative background to the failed effort to make the IPA template government-wide, I came across a curious passage in testimony attributed to the Library of Congress Research Service. The Service was addressing the issue … Continue reading
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Tagged conception, Feynman, IPA, reduction to practice
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To fix Bayh-Dole on reasonable pricing, why not start by enforcing the law?
I spent some time working through whether Bayh-Dole requires reasonable pricing. The simple answer is “No.” Of course, the simple answer isn’t very helpful, or accurate. Bayh-Dole does not require reasonable pricing by design of those drafting the bill. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, competition, IPA, march-in, policy, price, reasonable
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Does Bayh-Dole Require Reasonable Pricing?
Short answer: no, but well, sort of, er, actually–yes! but not what you might expect. In 2005, Norman J. Latker, the key draftsman of both the Institutional Patent Agreement and Bayh-Dole published a critique, along with co-author John H. Rabitschek, of … Continue reading