Author Archives: Gerald Barnett

Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 5

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

Now for Reimers’s new op/ed, making more arguments against march-in, but now directed at Xtandi, a prostate cancer drug based on a series of compounds developed at UCLA with federal funding. According to Knowledge Ecology International, Xtandi is offered for … Continue reading →

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Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 4

Posted on March 13, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

Niels Reimers, having moved through a series of fallacies and fantasies about Bayh-Dole in his op/ed published in the Mercury News last April, turns to his worry of the day–state attorney generals want the government to march-in and open up … Continue reading →

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Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 3

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through Niels Reimers’s op/ed in the Mercury News, published last April (2021) and now being used by the Bayh-Dole Coalition, a lobbying organization backed by a number of universities and front groups, to try to prevent Bayh-Dole’s … Continue reading →

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Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 2

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through an op/ed published in April 2021 by Niels Reimers, one of the recognized university TLO leaders from the 1970s on. We are working through it now because the Bayh-Dole Coalition is using quotes from it to … Continue reading →

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Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 1

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

I feel like Charlie Chaplin in a pie factory. Before I could work through an op/ed by Niels Reimers in the Mercury News last April (2021) that the Bayh-Dole Coalition has dredged up to contest the use of march-in to … Continue reading →

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Drexel’s Bogus Description of Bayh-Dole, 3

Posted on February 21, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are nearly done working through Drexel’s bogus badness about Bayh-Dole. We are considering commercialization. Drexel says Bayh-Dole requires Drexel to commercialize inventions. And Bayh-Dole doesn’t say that. Someone’s gotta be wrong. Oh, hey! I think it’s Drexel! The basic … Continue reading →

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Drexel’s Bogus Description of Bayh-Dole, 2

Posted on February 20, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through Drexel’s bogus badness about Bayh-Dole, hoping in the process to learn something not bogus about Bayh-Dole–and to see just how sloppy, loose, and confused Drexel folks are about Bayh-Dole, and by extension about technology transfer. Drexel’s … Continue reading →

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Drexel’s Bogus Description of Bayh-Dole, 1

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

Drexel University’s Office of Research and Innovation has a discussion of the Bayh-Dole Act posted at their web site. They get almost everything wrong about Bayh-Dole–but one thing perfectly right! Let’s work through their bogus badness, and in the process … Continue reading →

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Five Steps to Restoring an Effective University IP Practice, Step 5

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We have been working through five steps to restore a university’s IP practice to something that. might be modestly effective. Abandon AUTM, which has worked for decades against effective IP policy and practices. Abandon compulsory university ownership claims. You may … Continue reading →

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Five Steps to Restoring an Effective University IP Practice, Step 4

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through five steps to getting a university back to an effective IP practice, a practice aligned with academic values and focused on actual technology transfer. The idea of “technology transfer” is bureaucratic in origin. As a concept … Continue reading →

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