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Category Archives: Bayh-Dole
Institutional Patent Licensing–One of the least “direct” ways to obtain new technology
A few weeks ago I was involved in a discussion about how a region might import new technology developed at distant universities. One of the participants, with a background in AUTM-style technology transfer, made the off-hand comment that if we … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, L word, license, patent
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Government and non-government markets and federal government waste under Bayh-Dole
Bayh-Dole requires that when a contractor retains title to a subject invention, the contractor must grant to the government a non-exclusive license. Here’s Bayh-Dole on that government license (35 USC 202(c)(4)): (4) With respect to any invention in which the … Continue reading
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Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 8
While the patent system might give freedom to just any inventor and patent owner, the federal Government is not any ordinary patent owner, but has particular purposes and interests and expectations–and those may be present in federal patent policy, in … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 7
We are working through Boettiger and Bennett on changes they would like to see in Bayh-Dole practice. Here’s the fourth change: access to patented, publicly funded technologies for humanitarian purposes We now reach a deeply ironic portion of our authors’ … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 6
We have worked through the set up to a review article on the Bayh-Dole Act from the perspective of a couple of university licensing office practitioners. It’s a fascinating exercise in repeating the conventional vocabulary of university licensing offices but … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, IPA, NIH tools, patent commons, research exception
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Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 5
We have been considering an article reviewing the Bayh-Dole Act published in Nature Biotechnology ten years ago. The purpose in working through the article is to show just how deeply the rhetoric of university “technology transfer” has gained a life … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 4
We have looked at an article by Boettiger and Bennett reviewing the Bayh-Dole Act after 25 years. We have picked over the description of the law and pointed out how our authors mischaracterize the law to their own disadvantage. Bayh-Dole doesn’t … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 3
Boettiger and Bennett look at Bayh-Dole after 25 years and discuss how things ought to change. To set up their discussion, they first characterize Bayh-Dole as having “shifted the incentive structure” for patents. Parts 1 and 2 of this series … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 2
We are working through an article by Boettiger and Bennett that looks back on Bayh-Dole and wishes things were different in some ways. The actual thrust of the article, though, is about university patent practice. To get there, however, we … Continue reading
Ten Years After 25 Years After Bayh-Dole, Part 1
Ten years ago Sara Boettiger and Alan Bennett, a couple of University of California licensing officers, published an article on Bayh-Dole in Nature Biotechnology, “Bayh-Dole: if we knew then what we know now.” Boettiger and Bennett paint a picture of … Continue reading