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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
Undoing the Work of the Grifters
When you clear away the BS, you may as easily get mystery as clarity. For innovation management, mystery is acceptable. I’ve been trying to get at what is going on with the present assignment push in universities. It appears to … Continue reading
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The UC Present Assignment Demand: Links
For UC faculty unsure of what to do with the UC administration “this is not a change in policy, just sign here to confirm you agree”, here is a set of links to my discussion of the matter, if it … Continue reading
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Vistas of Potential and Speculative University Inventions
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a cover story on reproducing the results of medical research. It’s behind a subscription pay wall on-line. (fwiw, I used some of my expiring frequent flyer miles to subscribe to keep my subscription active). “This … Continue reading
A new page
I have added a new page, Guide to the Bayh-Dole Act. This is a piece that I put together for the Innovation Reading Group last spring, and thought I would revise it and post it here as well, where it … Continue reading
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Apply This 1% Solution to the Affected Areas…
UCSF has produced a short PowerPoint presentation [since removed] that lays out their rationale for changing their policy from a “promise to assign” to a “present assignment.” You can flip through the slides in a few seconds. Standard story. Stanford … Continue reading
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Sample language for my UC friends
I worked for six years in the University of California system, dealing with IP and research contracts. Given the current changes to patent policy being sent out to policy under the “the Supreme Court made us change policy, but this … Continue reading
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Shrewdly administered business enterprises
The article I discussed in the previous post makes a pitch for federal policy to make revenue generation an objective of Bayh-Dole, and then worries that pitch. Where the article is spot on is the need for accountability. The authors … Continue reading
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Recombinant Bayh-Dole
Here’s an opening to an article on the Axel patents at Columbia (my emphasis). The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 gave federally funded grantees and contractors, including universities, a clear and uniform mandate to patent and license inventions stemming from federally … Continue reading
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Thoughts on the role of sale in licensing
I am working through some more history of academic inventions and their subsequent deployment. This article provides a useful perspective on the Cohen-Boyer gene splicing patents. The article points out the role of the Stanford OTL in making companies aware … Continue reading
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CU’s a-Mazing IP Policy
In the University of Colorado’s IP policy we have a simple gesture that turns into a definitional and drafting maze. The simple gesture is, “In an effort to make money licensing patent rights, the university requires the assignment of patentable … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Policy, Technology Transfer
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