Category Archives: Bayh-Dole

How we got here in twelve chapters, 3

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

3. Chasing federally supported inventions Federal agencies develop a variety of approaches to inventions made in contracted work. University research foundations make a pitch for management of federally supported inventions, but are resisted by Public Health Service policies. As a … Continue reading →

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University claims on non-supported inventive work

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

In a note on the Guide to Bayh-Dole, a reader asks: One point I have been particularly concerned with is the position taken by virtually all of the universities that if a university employee is hired as a consultant to … Continue reading →

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You Make the Call–NIH Version

Posted on October 19, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

It’s time for you to test your reading ability with that of the aces at the NIH. Let’s see how well you can do! Here is NIH guidance on Bayh-Dole compliance for awardees of NIH grants: The Bayh-Dole Act includes … Continue reading →

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Who hoards technology in the Ivory Tower?

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

University of Washington president Michael Young gave a ten-minute talk in February 2012 at the opening of a business incubator on the UW campus. The talk is fascinating for the narrative it presents for UW to attempt to flip faculty and student … Continue reading →

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More Bayh-Dole Nonsense

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Gerald Barnett

In the “Innovation U 2.0” report, we find the now expectable misrepresentation of the Bayh-Dole Act: Following the passage of the Bayh-Dole legislation in 1980 every US university had the responsibility–and new opportunities–to work with faculty innovators in assessing the … Continue reading →

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Misunderstandings of Bayh-Dole

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

Sean O’Connor has written a well documented and argued article regarding the history of the Bayh-Dole Act and what he argues is a flaw in government reasoning regarding assignment practices for inventions that arises from a report written in 1947 … Continue reading →

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It's *Not* Just a Tax, You Know

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

It’s Just a Tax I have always wondered where the dismissive argument that non-exclusive licenses are “just a tax” came from. The expression comes up a couple of times in Sally Smith Hughes’s interviews with Niels Reimers, who ran Stanford’s … Continue reading →

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On making (Seeking Money = Public Service) federal research policy

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

Here is a paper from 2006 (actually, it looks like a near-final draft) by Fiona Murray on the OncoMouse licensing problem. At the time, the OncoMouse was one of the big issues for university tech transfer offices.  The paper is a great … Continue reading →

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Another misstatement of Bayh-Dole that could use an update

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

Here is another misstatement of Bayh-Dole in the wild, in a history of the Stanford OTL: Another significant event took place in 1980, when the U.S. Congress passed Public Law 96-517, the Bayh-Dole Act, which provided that rights to inventions … Continue reading →

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Sparrows, Mockingbirds, and Crows

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

Walter Valdivia at the Brookings Institution has a new report out, noted by the New York Times, on how to improve “technology transfer.” Valdivia is one of the more astute commentators on university licensing behaviors, and it’s valuable to consider … Continue reading →

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