Category Archives: Agreements

Making the Connection

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Under the standard patent rights clause (SPRC) in a federal funding agreement, a university is required to obtain the agreement of its research employees (that is, other than its clerical and non-technical employees) to protect the government’s interest.  The requirement … Continue reading →

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A New Template Agreement

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

This agreement came across my desk and I thought it was worth making available.  It’s not quite a social contract, and it clearly does not track anything I’ve ever seen in any official communications of university technology transfer.   So … Continue reading →

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For every scenario, other scenarios

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

AUTM imagines faculty researchers messing around with patent obligations and creating a situation where no one has undivided ownership of a research invention.  To AUTM, this is horrifying.  How can one make money  exclusively licensing to monopolists to make a … Continue reading →

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Metrics of "technology untransfer"

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Stuff arising in research is hardly technology.  Research deals in glimmers and epiphanies, arguable discovery and hypothesis, data and more data, theory formation and creative destruction of theory.   In all this, research inventions are not, generally, technology, and transfer does … Continue reading →

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A Template in a Teacup

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Templates are a staple of licensing. They range from past agreements to form book illustrations to model agreements to standardized agreements for specific transactions. One starts with templates to build agreements for specific situations by versioning for local circumstances. There … Continue reading →

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Not a Flying Toy–Extended

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Gerald Barnett

This is part of the discussion I posted previously at Techno-L on 11/3/09. I’m putting it up here for the sake of assembling the various takes on this issue. It lays out some of the diverse ways Bayh-Dole could be … Continue reading →

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