Monthly Archives: October 2015

Cornell’s incompetent "procedural revision" of its patent policy

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Gerald Barnett

In 2013, Robert A. Burhman, Vice President for Technology Transfer at Cornell University, sent a letter out to faculty making a claim about Stanford v. Roche: As you may also know, and as discussed in more detail at the end of this … Continue reading →

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Can’t you see what Wisconsin has been doin’ to free?

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Gerald Barnett

In the summer of 1981, the Bayh-Dole Act went into effect, launching a tsunami that would sweep away the existing infrastructure for faculty-led use of patents to develop research discoveries. In its place, thirty-five years later, sits a manager-led system … Continue reading →

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UW's President Continues UW's Rank Deception

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Gerald Barnett

On September 30, University of Washington interim president Ana Mari Cauce sent out an email to alumni, including me, on the topic of “kicking off a new year.” The aim of the email was a pitch for donations, of course. … Continue reading →

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How Bayh-Dole dammed, and then damned, the commons

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Gerald Barnett

This is the third article in a series. The first is here. The second, here. The motivating driver of the Bayh-Dole Act, if we can be blunt, was to put the affiliated research foundations in a position to keep with impunity any … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole was written for the research foundations. Pity for us all that it didn’t work out.

Posted on October 1, 2015 by Gerald Barnett

After I wrote the previous article, it struck me that the origins of Bayh-Dole really are with the affiliated research foundations trying to license patents to industry, not with the universities, and not even with Research Corporation (which remained neutral … Continue reading →

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