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Institutional patent derangement syndrome

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

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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“Only assholes get patents…”

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Slashdot points to a recent blog post by Marco Arment on dealing with feature copying and imitation in software apps. Arment summaries copyright and trademark angles, noting that neither provides much defense. He then moves on to patents: Only assholes … Continue reading →

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Mississippi State University misrepresents Bayh-Dole

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Here’s Mississippi State University’s Office Technology Management answering the question “Why does the University patent technology?” It is required under federal grants – The University is required to patent and commercialize the technology under terms of the Bayh-Dole Act. If the … Continue reading →

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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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The National Patent Planning Commission argument for government-created private patent monopolies, 2

Posted on January 3, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

We are looking at the National Patent Planning Commission argument that the government should be permitted to grant exclusive patent licenses on inventions that it acquires. The basic position is that it is a good thing that the government should … Continue reading →

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