Tag Archives: public interest

“Protection” of inventions in Bayh-Dole

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

Twitter thread: Federal patent law uses “protect” with respect to inventions only in Bayh-Dole’s strange definition of invention at 35 USC 201(d): “is or may be patentable or otherwise protectable under this title” What does it mean to “protect” an … Continue reading →

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WARF, Vitamin D, and the Public Interest, 2

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

We have worked through a 1945 appeals court reasoning about the University of Wisconsin’s president’s refusal to allow the licensing of an invention beneficial to public health for use in food products that might compete with State of Wisconsin dairy … Continue reading →

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Exceptional Circumstances in Bayh-Dole, 10

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

We have been circling around the central problem of “exceptional circumstances” in Bayh-Dole. The law works to allow organizations to make decisions about patent monopolies that preempt other statutes–ones that “require a disposition of rights inconsistent” with Bayh-Dole’s arbitrary preemption … Continue reading →

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AAU, APLU, and others aim to “bolster” federal technology transfer, 4

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

We are dealing with the bombast that AAU and other “higher education associations” put forward as advice to NIST with regard to how the federal government might better manage its own technology transfer. Instead, the HEAs seek to improve their … Continue reading →

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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 10

Posted on May 24, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Medicinal chemistry drives the whole of federal patent policy The IPA program, revived in 1968 by the NIH following the Harbridge House report, which singled out medicinal chemistry … Continue reading →

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