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Category Archives: Bayh-Dole
AUTM Finds Itself North of the DMZ
If we look at AUTM as a membership organization, where the dues are largely paid on behalf of the members by their employers, and ask what positions it has taken recently, we find that overwhelming those positions are with policies … Continue reading
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Baird Asks a Key Question
Brian Baird (Washington 3d District) made some important contributions to the House Science and Technology subcommittee hearings last Thursday. His challenge for university research is that bright people too often end up doing meaningless things. Baird asks, “Isn’t there a … Continue reading
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University Brand "Commercialization"
Some university technology administrators are adopting the idea that the crowning outcome of public research is commercial money-making. This idea is wrapped around a shift in vocabulary from “technology transfer” to “technology licensing” to “commercialization.” These are very different concepts. … Continue reading
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Bah! Dolts!
It appears that AUTM and others are gearing up for a big push to change Bayh-Dole. They hope to get the Supreme Court to take a look at Stanford v. Roche and are ginning up a new amicus brief to … Continue reading
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Bills of Rights and Geneva Conventions
Inventors are in the thick of creativity and discovery and bureaucrats are not. Yet we find some AUTM folks these days arguing fervently for a stronger affinity with bureaucrats than with inventors. They do this even when successful inventors show … Continue reading
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Lab Budgets
A post over on Techno-L caught my eye. It asked if anyone had dealt with cost recovery for business and lab costs in dealing with licensing income. A number of responses lay out the party line on what patent licensing … Continue reading
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The Value of TLOs
The TLO (technology licensing office) is a bug in the grass of innovation. There’s so much more involved than holding patents on research inventions for money. However, bugs have their place in innovation, provided they are the right kind of … Continue reading
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A Deeper Problem than Most
Is university “technology transfer” all but dead? I’m not talking about the movement of insights from research to practice, nor of the management of intellectual property rights arising in university research. Rather, I’m talking about the offices that manage such … Continue reading
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The 7 Obligations of Highly Effective Bayh-Dole Compliers
Here is a list, with comments of course, of what is required for a university to comply with Bayh-Dole. In its most stubby form, the university is required to report inventions made with federal support to the government. If the … Continue reading
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Still Crazy After 30 Years
I’ve been busy working through ways in which universities construe the Bayh-Dole Act and implement practice. You would think after 30 years, universities would have things pretty well packed down by way of compliance. But instead, it appears that somewhere … Continue reading
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