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University of Illinois Guidance on Bayh-Dole, c. 2006 and 2022
Here is a representation of the Bayh-Dole Act, from a University of Illinois OTM brochure from 2006: The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 determined that the University retains title to intellectual property created using Federal funding. With this ownership comes the … Continue reading
University of Cincinnati’s Top Ten Technologies for 2023
The University of Cincinnati has published a list of its “top ten” technologies for 2023. There’s some pretty interesting work on the list, and 5 of the 10 technologies have already found a licensee (exclusive, of course). That’s impressive. But … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Technology Transfer
Tagged Cincinnati, federal funding
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Outline of the federal framework for the disposition of inventions
Here is an outline of the federal framework for inventions. I have included links to various documents. Lots more to be said, and the brief account here is more gist than deep summary, but perhaps you find it helpful. Plenty … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Bayh-Dole, federal, framework, inventions, patents
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ChatGPT’s Response to a Question Regarding Bayh-Dole Enforcement
Here’s another ChatGPT response, this one to “What are the key provisions of the Bayh-Dole Act that federal agencies fail to enforce?” It’s sort of a trick question, and ChatGPT fails to recognize that. Given that ChatGPT must use extant … Continue reading
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ChatGPT’s Garbled But Expectable Version of Bayh-Dole
I asked ChatGPT for “the key points of the Bayh-Dole Act.” Here’s the first response: The Bayh-Dole Act is a United States federal law that was passed in 1980. It allows businesses, universities, and other organizations to retain ownership of … Continue reading
A Bayh-Dole Quicker Read Made Much Longer!
Here’s an even shorter version of Bayh-Dole, with some paraphrasing [now made much longer with comments to show why these quick things matter.] Use the patent system to promote the use of inventions. [This is a restriction. The Constitutional mandate … Continue reading
A look at recent startups at Duke
A recent tweet called out the Duke University technology transfer program for starting 12 companies so far in 2022. That’s a good number of startups for a university. We should applaud. But the tweet went on to attribute the startups … Continue reading
Mixing Two Governments’ Funding
Here’s an interesting statement of government rights in a University of Arizona patent, 9239453 B2. (I’d link to the USPTO patent server, but since the change in search software, it’s not obviously possible.): GOVERNMENT RIGHTS (1) This invention was made … Continue reading
The failed Bayh-Dole bargain, 3
We are working through a new article on Bayh-Dole march-in, written by two PhD patent attorneys. In its way, the article is more puff piece than law review, drawing its frame from the sources chosen, not much looking at the … Continue reading