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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
Present Assignment Agreements, the Coming Nightmare for University IP Practice
This turned out to be a longish essay for a blog environment. It’s not for everyone. It puts together arguments against the idea that present assignments somehow address the Stanford v Roche situation, or situations like it, or are otherwise … Continue reading
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Stevenson-Wydler Technology Transfer Reporting
I have written before about technology transfer standards (here and here, for instance), and how the AUTM licensing survey in particular fails to provide useful management information, and in some ways is quite misleading with regard to what is going … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Why an Innovation Bill of Rights, and not Better Bureaukleptic University Policy?
I’m looking at a new article on Stanford v Roche that ends with the assurance that universities can use present assignments and doing so will “fix” their ownership problem. Before getting into the article, I want to emphasize that this … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IP, Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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Texas wants you anyway
The University of Texas has a fine statement of ownership in its policy (Rule 90101, Section 2). The Board of Regents automatically owns the intellectual property created by individuals subject to this Rule that is described in Sections 3, 5, … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Present Assignment
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Stevenson-Wydler and Public Domain
In working through the agent model anticipated by Bayh-Dole, I was chasing down the citations for each of the possible outcomes. The one that caught me up, however, was how a subject invention gets to the public domain. I thought … Continue reading
Thanks
Just a word of thanks to those of you visiting the site. I hope you find the perspective here helpful in developing ideas about university research enterprise. For those of you dropping me notes by email, I appreciate the feedback, … Continue reading
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Just how many Termans do ya got there?
I was looking at some accounts of collaboration and found this wonderful symposium paper by AnnaLee Saxenian. It’s from 1995, but as it talks about the history of Silicon Valley, it is ever much insightful and relevant as ever to … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature, Policy
Tagged AUTM survey, policy, Saxenian, Terman
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Perhaps Arena Rock is the Answer
I have been presenting the issues from a variety of perspectives and lines of reasoning. I’ve argued from history, that faculty-led, voluntary, agent-based invention management has been highly successful. I’ve shown how the voluntary approach formed the basis for a … Continue reading
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Is the UC present assignment even legal?
The move by the University of California to present assignments of future inventions plays havoc to existing policy and creates rather than limits “title uncertainty”. Among the bits of havoc is the elimination of the review step prior to … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole Agent Options and IP Archeology
Here is a brief summary of the flow of control for choice of invention management agent in Bayh-Dole. First Choice: Inventors can choose university Inventors can choose another qualified agent w/university agreement Inventors can choose any agent w/university and w/federal … Continue reading
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