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The Faculty Stack, 4: Frontiers Science and Other Science
We are working toward the faculty stack. To get there, however, we need context. We started with Vannevar Bush’s problem–how to connect federal resources to the free play of free intellects to expand the frontiers of science. The new awareness … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Policy, Vannever Bush
Tagged noodling, scientific frontier, skunk, skunk works, Vannevar Bush
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Another question on RE: are exclusive license and assignment the same thing?
Here’s another question on RE: “is an exclusive license of technology and an assignment the same thing?” Answer: yes and no. Let’s talk exclusive license and assignment of inventions rather than technology. An assignment expressly conveys title to an invention. … Continue reading
The Faculty Stack, 3: Linking Federal Resources with Free Play
We are working through the idea that faculty independence is an important element in the justification to push federal funding for research activities to universities. For Vannevar Bush, the idea was that the frontiers of science were best explored by … Continue reading
Latker Here, There, and Everywhere in Bayh-Dole
Norman J. Latker is the architect of present federal patent policy. Let’s work through his resume. It provides a remarkable tale of persistent influence leading to the unenforced, innovation-stagnating, dismal-performance (but it’s all kept secret, by law) Bayh-Dole Act. Latker … Continue reading
The faculty stack, 2: Basic Research and IP Policy
The idea I will pursue here is that university faculty represent a distinct and important kind of discoverer–researcher, investigator, noodler, gadgeteer, irrelevanteur, loon. Our search for what we cannot imagine depends in having at least some really capable folks out … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, History, Policy, Vannever Bush
Tagged basic research, free intellect, Vannevar Bush
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For Latker, Bayh-Dole wins a political battle over delivery of research to the public
In February 1974, Norman J. Latker, patent counsel for the NIH, gave a talk in Chicago with the title “Progress Towards a Uniform U.S. Government Patent Policy for Universities and Non-Profit Organizations.” You can find most of it at IP … Continue reading
The faculty stack, 1: Academic Freedom and IP Policy
[The aim is to get to the next article, but I found myself writing this one first. How it goes. Purdue is the ground zero for what has become the Bayh in Bayh-Dole, so we may as well. Purdue has … Continue reading
NIST, Bayh-Dole Policy, and Disincentives
I spent the past two weeks working on comments in response to NIST’s proposed new regulations for Bayh-Dole. I ended up with 73 pages of answers to questions and section-by-section comments, and about 60 pages of outtakes. NIST didn’t make … Continue reading
Unenforced, Bayh-Dole enables a federal offer to look the other way on price-gouging
The government’s failure to use its government license to practice and have practiced (=make, use, and sell) puts undue pressure on march-in to address nonuse and unreasonable use of inventions arising in work receiving federal support. NIST wants to gut … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, high priced medicines, History, Vannever Bush
Tagged Bayh-Dole, government license, march-in, monopoly pricing, NIST
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Bayh-Dole support for inventors and free competition
I made this a twitter thread. I’ll post it here as well and work to round it out as I have time. It’s the flip side of being blunt about what happens under Bayh-Dole if an inventor does not assign … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole
Tagged (f)(2), 35 USC 202(a), 35 USC 202(c)(7)(A), 401.9, Bayh-Dole, charade
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