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Category Archives: Bayh-Dole
University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 17
We are pretty much through with the University of Missouri’s policy scam. Let’s clean up a few last gobbets of policy ugliness. To review. The University of Missouri’s patent policy provides only two conditions under which the university may claim … Continue reading
University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 16
University administrators insist that they, unlike their corporate counterparts, can expand their institutional claim on inventions to be anything that’s invented, and faculty must agree to this claim as a condition of employment. That is, administrators claim the right to … Continue reading
University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 15
In Bayh-Dole, the definition of “subject invention” is not a matter of defining a term in a federal contract. Bayh-Dole is part of federal patent law, so “subject invention” is a definition of patent law. A subject invention is a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, MPEP, stupid mess, subject invention, University of Missouri
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University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 14
The use of “subject invention” in federal contracting goes back to at least as early as 1947, when the military used “subject invention” in research contracts. Here’s an instance from a Navy contract (quoted in Mine Safety Appliances Company v. … Continue reading
University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 12
Hah–thought I was out of Misery articles? No, not at all. We have a few more! The distinction between conception and reduction to practice becomes important in university patent policies such as the University of Missouri’s because university administrators attempt … Continue reading
At least repeal Bayh-Dole for everything other than pharmaceuticals
No other industry writes fakographics about the glories of Bayh-Dole. Only pharma. No-one in university research writes fakographics about the glories of Bayh-Dole. Only patent bureaucrats and their stooges in front organizations like AUTM, COGR, AAU, and APLU. Oh, maybe … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole, the rotten law for rotten bureaucrats
You know something has to be rotten with Bayh-Dole when: university administrators never cite the law even close to correctly the statistics used to champion the law are fake and deceptive all reports of invention utilization are government secrets university … Continue reading
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Kill Bayh-Dole
The Bayh-Dole desperation continues. Now Bio has released its very own fakographic, citing impressive-sounding numbers with no foundation in fact, a fake history that exists in the minds of a few pundits, and perpetuates a fraud on the public that … Continue reading
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Tagged AUTM, Bayh-Dole, Bio, desperate, fakographic, pipeline, stupid policy
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University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 10
Darned! We have not yet dealt with the promised interrelationship between conception and actual reduction to practice as promised by Footnote 1 of the University of Missouri’s patent policy. It’s rather simple, generally, for a university patent policy that wants … Continue reading
University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 8
How has the University of Missouri gone from a remarkably sensible and readable policy in 1956 to a grasping, scheming, convoluted, and at times incomprehensibly bombastic policy now? And why is it that university administrators insist that their policies give … Continue reading