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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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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, Table of Links
In May 2017 I wrote a series of articles that traced the development of the University of Wisconsin’s patent policy, how the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation shaped federal policy to disenfranchise faculty inventors in favor of its own money-making ventures … Continue reading
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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Whistling all the way to the bank, revisited 2
The “Whistling” article struggles with the problem of the standard patent rights clause language about “electing to retain title.” I’ve wondered over this wording for years. It appears to be at the heart of the “cleverly crafted scheme” to intercept … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Bayh-Dole, institutional patent agreement, invention, IPA, research sponsor, scope of rights, sponsored research
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 13
Things start here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 The Harbridge House report According to the Harbridge House report on federal patent policy, from the 1930s until the 1950s, the pharmaceutical industry was the primary source of funding … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged certainty of title, Harbridge House, IPA, NIH, pharmaceutical industry
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 12
This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 How history informs the present Why spend all this time on a lost university policy from 1969 in response to a canceled IPA program? After all, we have … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 8
The start of this article is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 More WARF Antitrust: 5-FU WARF encountered multiple antitrust problems. Consider this account from Cronon and Jenkins: This is pre-Bayh-Dole, of course, but also pre-revived IPA, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 5-fluorouracil, 5-FU, antitrust, Bayh-Dole, IPA, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 5
Start here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 The new 1969 Wisconsin patent policy broadens the scope of the university’s interest in patents yet further: Here is the Wisconsin IPA definition of “subject invention”: Both elements are essential … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged cleverly crafted scheme, institutional conflict of interest, IPA, ordinary skill in the art, patent policy, scope, subject invention, subvention, Wisconsin
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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
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, IPA, private risk capital, WARF
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