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Category Archives: Bayh-Dole
UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 4
H. Holden Thorp, editor in chief at Science magazine and formerly chancellor at Washington University and before that the University of North Carolina, published an editorial in Science, “An opportunity to improve innovation” that provides insight on the UW FAST … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, pathways, technology transfer, Thorp
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Necessary Federal Exclusive Licensing
The Harbridge House report in 1968 mused that based on survey responses from nonprofit patent administrators, . . . the inventions must frequently arise from basic research and require substantial private development before reaching the stage where they are commercially … Continue reading
The Turning Point in Federal Patent Policy
1971. Here’s where things started to go bad. In 1963, President Kennedy issued a memorandum setting forth executive branch patent policy. When the federal government acquired inventions, the policy stipulated that patents would be made available “through dedication or licensing”–that … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Freedom, History, Policy
Tagged exclusive license, IPA, Kennedy, Latker, Nixon, patent policy
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proto Bayh-Dole march-in, c. 1976
Bayh-Dole was the banana that finally stuck on wall, but Norman Latker had tried any number of schemes to circumvent federal policy requiring default open access to the inventions arising in work for which the federal government provided funding. People … Continue reading
The Thornton Bill’s “purposes” and Bayh-Dole’s “policy and objectives”
Bayh-Dole states its policy and objectives at 35 USC 200. Here there are, with a more readable layout: It is the policy and objective of the Congress to use the patent system to promote the utilization of inventions arising from … Continue reading
Why is an invention a subject invention?–2
We had a look at antecedents to Bayh-Dole’s strange definition of “subject invention.” We saw that the definition has two purposes– (1) to identify the use of the term “invention” with patent law, so Bayh-Dole works with a defined term … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, subject invention
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Why is an invention a subject invention?–1
Let’s look at three antecedents for Bayh-Dole’s definition of “subject invention”: The Institutional Patent Agreement master, 1968, that allowed participating non-profits to end-run DWEW contracting policy and take ownership of inventions made with NIH funding (Latker said that Bayh-Dole was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, clockworks, subject invention
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Search on RE: Bayh-Dole provisions and subject inventions
Here’s a recent search on Research Enterprise: “bayh-dole provisions only apply to subject inventions.” Is it a question? Is it an assertion? Does Bayh-Dole apply only to subject inventions? No. Some Bayh-Dole provisions do apply to subject inventions, but much … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, botch, funding agreement, subject invention
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The non-preference for US manufacturing under Bayh-Dole
A recent search at RE was looking for “preference for manufacturing in US under Bayh-Dole.” There’s a series of articles here on 35 USC 204. There’s also discussion of the related march-in provision at 35 USC 203(a)(4) and the broader … Continue reading
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Tagged 204, Bayh-Dole, exclusive license, industry, preference
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Crap, crap, crap, Bayh-Dole, and crap talking points
Think of these as presentation slides, but without the actual mental pain of seeing slides. Bayh-Dole has failed to produce the outcomes claimed has destroyed university research freedom and technology transfer is a drafting nightmare of inconsistencies, half-hearted gestures, and … Continue reading