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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
NIAID Breezily Repudiates Supreme Court Ruling
Perhaps you wanted a short version. NIAID puts this in guidance to inventors regarding inventions made in NIH-funded work: Under the Bayh-Dole Act, your institution as the grant recipient owns rights to the NIH-funded invention and has the right and … Continue reading
NIAID botches Bayh-Dole
This will be a bit of a long ride. Buckle up. In 2011, the US Supreme Court ruled in Stanford v Roche that the Bayh-Dole Act does not vest title to inventions made in federally supported work with the nonprofit … Continue reading
A university technology transfer annotated reading list
So you want to tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain. Got it! Here is a basic reading list of documents that frame the history of university technology transfer. I’ve put it in chronological order and provide links to … Continue reading
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Tagged blue skies, pain, reading list, technology transfer
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An Open Letter to Senator Warren Regarding Xtandi
Dear Senator Warren: You have called repeatedly for the federal government to use regulatory tools available to it to address the high prices charged for drugs. Your attention to this matter is much appreciated! I write with specific reference to … Continue reading
Smells Like Bayh-Dole Spirit
Bayh-Dole has two main concerns: contractor patent rights (35 USC 202-204) and federal agency disposition of patents (35 USC 207-209). These two sets of provisions work together in odd but let’s say intended ways. For instance, 35 USC 207(a)(2) authorizes … Continue reading
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The Bluntly Essence of Bayh-Dole’s Contracting Provisions
Let’s be super bluntly. The essence of Bayh-Dole’s contracting provisions is: Make new product available promptly, and at a competitive price. That’s it. That’s what all the apparatus and fuss is about, and what federal agencies refuse to recognize or … Continue reading
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Cornboard, Part 2
Despite various announcements about possible products and manufacturing, Cornboard Manufacturing appears not to have manufactured much of anything by the time the Illinois patent expired in 2016. Although the company did not “disappear” like Illinois’s first exclusive licensee, it did … Continue reading
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Cornboard, Part 1
The Bayh-Dole Coalition, an evidence-free lobbying organization in support of not enforcing Bayh-Dole’s public protections, tweeted today a “success” story: Success Story! @UofIllinois 3 Researchers developed a product known as “CornBoard”, a way to make composite materials from corn to … Continue reading
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Tagged cornboard, Illinois, invention, skateboard
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