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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 10: the drivers that eventually produce Bayh-Dole
There’s the version of the theory of patent rights that asserts that exclusionary practice is at the heart of the value of a patent, and any practice that declines to assert a patent wastes that value. This theory of exclusionary … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged exclusion, patent, safeguard, technology transfer
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Funnel vision and university default exclusive licensing
Much of the current, dominant narrative about patents at universities depends on looking isolating single inventions at a single institution with a single profile for use. “Inventions,” so this narrative go, will not be used or developed unless for each … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged defection, exclusive licensing, funnel, narrative, patent, technology transfer, turdly
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 4
H. Holden Thorp, editor in chief at Science magazine and formerly chancellor at Washington University and before that the University of North Carolina, published an editorial in Science, “An opportunity to improve innovation” that provides insight on the UW FAST … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, pathways, technology transfer, Thorp
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 11: Two key provisions
A university patent policy designed to promote effective technology transfer will have these key provisions: Voluntary participation Default institutional non-exclusive FRAND offer These are key elements. FRAND is “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory.” We will work through the reasons why these … Continue reading
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Tagged effective, licensing, money, shit pie, technology transfer
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 5: Transfer relationships and leading assets
We are working on university patent policies for effective technology transfer. I have described the Eat and Fart model that dominates university patent practice: eat everything, fart a lot, and drop a financial turd once every decade or two to … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged adjacent possible, dinking, eat and fart, effective, relationship, technology transfer
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 2: Non-exclusive, voluntary, negotiated practice for effective technology transfer
We will get into the operational details of non-exclusive, voluntary, negotiated university IP management for effective technology transfer. Short answer–everything is navigable and has already been done, even if folks have forgotten how to do it. We can look at … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged crappy, non-exclusive, patent policy, technology transfer
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 1: Outline
Universities have never had patent policies centered on technology transfer. Not back when, not now. It should come as no surprise that universities don’t track technology transfer and don’t report their outcomes. What would a university technology transfer IP policy … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Projects, Technology Transfer
Tagged project, technology transfer
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 5: Metrics relative to mission
Who it is that most wants technology change. Or, more particularly, who is it that we ought to want to make technology change? My bet is that the top of that list is not occupied by patent bureaucrats. It’s not, … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucrats, metrics, technology change, technology transfer
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 4: Technology transfer and technology change
We have been talking university technology transfer metrics. First, that there aren’t any metrics. No one bothers to collect them or report them. Instead we get proxies of activity–number of patents, number of licenses. Once one has patents, then one … Continue reading
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Tagged bureaucrats, metrics, technology change, technology transfer
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On Technology Transfer Metrics, 1: Issues
Let’s follow up on the fact that there’s no publicly available–free–data source to track university to industry technology transfer. There’s no non-free data source to track such transfer, either. You would think there would be. To get at metrics, let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, licensing, metrics, money, technology transfer
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