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Category Archives: Bayh-Dole
Has Bayh-Dole Been Successful?
I answered a Quora question a while back. I thought I’d repost it here. The question was: Has the Bayh-Dole act been successful? Just over 30 years old, the Bayh-Dole Act has set the path for most research universities and … Continue reading
Georgia on my mind
At the University of Georgia, the Office of the Vice President for Research has a bizarre reading of the Bayh-Dole Act: The Bayh-Dole Act, passed in 1980, makes it possible for the federal government to assign its patent rights to … Continue reading
Common bits of faux Bayh-Dole bullshit
Faux Bayh-Dole has been de facto federal research innovation policy now for thirty-five years. The real Bayh-Dole is sketchy enough, but the faux version is downright vile. Here are some “truths” of faux Bayh-Dole that are, in reality, simply not true. We … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
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Would an Apple and Broadcom v Caltech case deliver a second pounding to faux Bayh-Dole?
[Yes, you read the title correctly–Apple and Broadcom should be suing Caltech.] In Bayh-Dole, the public covenant that runs with patent rights in subject inventions is not as well developed as it was in the Institutional Patent Agreements. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Litigation
Tagged 35 USC 200, Apple, Bayh-Dole, Broadcom, Caltech, screw it all
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The Public Research Patent Covenant–Narrative Version
The Institutional Patent Agreement approach to patent rights arising from federally supported research carried with it what we may call a public covenant, a set of conditions that run with each patent on a subject invention that place limits on … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Bremer, IPA, middlemen, public covenant
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The IPA Public Covenant
[revised to add a discussion of Kennedy’s patent policy statement and distinguish it from COGR’s account of it; added an account of the various federal agency approaches to ownership of inventions] Advocates for Bayh-Dole practice odd forms of historical revisionism. … Continue reading
Faux Bayh-Dole Central
The Association of University Technology Managers sponsored “Bayh-Dole Central,” (now the “Bayh-Dole History and Research Central”), a site hosted by the University of New Hampshire School of Law and devoted to the Bayh-Dole Act. There you can find all sorts … Continue reading
They just can’t kill the beast
After the Supreme Court ruled in Stanford v Roche, Joe Allen and Howard Bremer wrote an article (“After Stanford v Roche: Bayh-Dole Still Stands“) in which they asserted that they had argued against the idea that Bayh-Dole vested with contractors … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, History, Policy, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Allen, Bremer, Stanford v Roche, vesting
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Bayh-Dole, the franken-sausage god
The full title is: Bayh-Dole, the franken-sausage god that destroyed private initiative and the federal research commons, eliminated subvention from university research policy and failed to create a public covenant to use research inventions to develop new products and create new industries … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Commons, History, Innovation, Metrics, Policy, Sponsored Research
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Senator Bayh’s inventor-loathing faux Bayh-Dole Act
There has been plenty written about the practice lesson taught by the Supreme Court decision in Stanford v Roche. I’m dismayed how much of it shows no evidence of an awareness of the facts of the case and the primary … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Bayh, Bayh-Dole, faux, inventor loathing, of, Stanford v Roche
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