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Author Archives: Gerald Barnett
The better way is no way: background rights, royalty stacking, and double licensing arising from university IP claims
Let’s start blunt. Then extended discussion. Snark as needed. Current university IP policies create a background rights problem that drives away collaborators, makes university-based inventions irrelevant, and makes university dealings with IP default to unreliable. One of the dark problems … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Patents
Tagged background rights, complications, double licensing, royalty stacking, stupid
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More on Feynman’s Patents
Back in 2013, I wrote a stubby post to create a link to audio of an interview with physicist Richard P. Feynman, in which he describes how he came to be named as inventor on U.S. patents. Since that post … Continue reading
Espresso Granola
Okay. I have been making granola for dunno over five years. Here’s my once uber-non-public recipe. Combine the Goop Mess and Espresso with the Dry Mix. Bake, stir, and cool. Easy. Expectable IP comment to follow.
Posted in Fun, Innovation
Tagged decalf, granola, innovation, secret
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Why I stepped away, and why I am back
I’ve been asked where I’ve been for the past year, and to brief about it, I decided to step away from writing and focus on other things, such as working with companies. I also felt that I had had enough … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Innovation, Projects, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged institution, Moloch, NIPIA, project, rainmaker
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Thorin’s Deal
For the past few months, I’ve been memorizing The Hobbit as part of a project of mine to have a look at how (my) memory works. So far I’m towards the end of Chapter 2. The poetry is the hardest … Continue reading
Recreating Bell Labs, or Not
It is time to get back to writing here. I will resume by pointing to a new article by Brian Potter at Construction Physics on Bell Labs, “What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?” Potter identifies a number of … Continue reading
10 Ways Universities Deal in Patents
I have been thinking about how university technology transfer is depicted, versus how it actually happens. The depictions are something of a prophetic hope–inventions reported to the university’s licensing office will be evaluated for “commercial potential” and those that look … Continue reading
Posted in Patents, Technology Transfer
Tagged nothing ever happens, patents
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Bayh-Dole, Federal Agency Conflict of Interest, and the Covid Vaccines
Here is a recent video clip of an interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He asserts that it was known that HCQ and Ivermectin were effective in treating corona viruses by 2004. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims that "We knew … Continue reading
Faculty Strategies for Getting Their IP Back, 2
Here are some strategies for getting IP back that don’t work or avoid IP ownership. (1) Don’t disclose an invention to the university, and file for a patent on your own. Your application will be published in a year or … Continue reading
Faculty Strategies for Getting Their IP Back
If you are a faculty member at an American university, you will get a lot of twisted advice from your university technology transfer office about intellectual property, Bayh-Dole, and patent policy. The advice (and descriptions about technology transfer) is mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged conditional, faculty, startup
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