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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
The use of the patent system for federal research results, 6: The seeming middle ground
While the FSA policy makes what appears to be nice gestures–royalty-free licensing or at least licensing without unreasonable restrictions and without excessive royalties–there’s little here to provide guidance so far. The policy continues, looking at the prong in which the … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Patents, Policy
Tagged 110-1, conditional, limited, open access
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 5: Possibilities of patent use
We are working through and around FSA order 110-1, the first major federal executive branch policy regarding inventions made in federally funded work, issued in 1952. The Supreme Court in its 1933 decision in Dubilier said the it was up … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy
Tagged excessive, possibility, practical application, unreasonable
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 4: Forman
We are looking slowly at FSA order 110-1, the policy that starts the administrative battle over how federal funding ought to affect company opportunities to profit on matters of public health. The FSA, having insisted that research results should be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Patents, Policy
Tagged 110, Forman, FSA, public interest, reasonable
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 3: FSA 110-1 and public interest
Federal policy on inventions made in federally supported research starts in a big way with Federal Security Agency Order 110-1, dated December 30, 1952. Norman Latker, patent counsel for the NIH, in 1978 testimony before Senator Nelson’s subcommittee, identified Order … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, History, Innovation, Open Source, Patents, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 110, FSA, public interest
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 2: Why universities patent
For an account that covers reasonably well the context for universities getting involved in patenting, see Elizabeth Popp Berman’s 2006 paper “Why Do Universities Patent? The Role of the Federal Government in Creating Modern Technology Transfer Practice” (draft here). What … Continue reading
The use of the patent system for federal research results, 1: Dubilier
It starts with Dubilier. In 1933, the Supreme Court decided in Dubilier that federal employees, just because they were employed, did not give up their personal–Constitutional–rights in inventions that they made. Considering the possible differences between private employment and federal … Continue reading
Goodyear and use of a gateway patent to control a big Invention
In Medical Monopoly Joseph Gabriel describes how Charles Goodyear used patents to lock out competitors from using his process for “vulcanizing” rubber without a license. We will use Gabriel’s account to consider alternatives to the prevailing university narrative about how … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, Innovation, Patents, Policy
Tagged big Invention, Gabriel, gateway, Goodyear
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Status Update
If you are looking for new posts, you have just a bit longer to wait. Life pulls many ways! But I’ve got a number of articles drafted and more planned. When things settle down, I’ll have more time. Then things … Continue reading
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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Learning from Latker’s 1984 “Federal Initiatives for Innovation” Talk, 3
Norman Latker, formerly patent counsel at the NIH and chief architect of Bayh-Dole and its extension by Presidential memorandum to all federal contracting, argues that if federal inventions are not privately owned and exploited for their exclusionary and financial value, … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, exclusive license, Latker, risk capital
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