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The Arizona Commerce Authority Guidance on Bayh-Dole, 4

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

We are dealing with Arizona Commerce Authority advice about Bayh-Dole and IP rights. Almost done. Or fed up. Or bored with such nonsense. But first, march-in. Then general gestures about IP. The government’s march-in rights are one of the most … Continue reading →

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Contractor Background Rights and March-in

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

Bayh-Dole’s march-in provisions (35 USC 203) are worthless. They were designed to be worthless, except for creating a show of public oversight and intervention that allowed Bayh-Dole to get through Congress and be signed into law. Bremer bragged about how … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-8

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

In Bayh-Dole the march-in for health or safety needs is drafted to prevent the government from breaking up private patent monopolies on supported inventions merely because there are health or safety needs. The default public policy in Bayh-Dole is that … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-7

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

Now let’s look at Bayh-Dole’s treatment of march-in (35 USC 203(a)) and “reasonable terms”: . . . the Federal agency . . . shall have the right . . . to require the contractor . . . to grant a … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-5

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through the prior federal regulations in an effort to understand the “reasonable terms” requirement in Bayh-Dole’s 35 USC 203(a)(1) march-in condition. In the Kennedy executive branch patent policy, contractors had two primary routes to retain ownership of … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-2

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

Now we get to government rights under march in. Here we have complications. In 1968, Norman Latker, NIH’s patent counsel, revived the Institutional Patent Agreement program, under which the NIH (and later the NSF) contracted with nonprofits so that a … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-1

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

This will be longish. It’s a document of the details. In a world where people spout TL;DR for most any issue of substance, and want a sound bite to gulp instead, this ain’t it. Perhaps we can get all brief … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

Bayh-Dole policy (35 USC 200) that the patent system is to be used “to promote the utilization of inventions arising in federally supported research or development.” That “utilization” is then set forth in the definition of “practical application” (35 USC … Continue reading →

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The FPR criteria for invention ownership–2

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

We are talking the proposed goals for federal policy on the disposition of inventions made in projects worthy of federal support, circa 1973, by way of a Department of Commerce committee report. The report recommended as goals for deciding ownership … Continue reading →

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The dogs in the manger, 1

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

In 1979, R. Tenney Johnson, a career federal attorney, testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space on Senate bill S. 1215, the “Science and Technology Research Development Utilization Policy Act.” This was the bill that was competing with … Continue reading →

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