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Category Archives: Bozonet
Behind the Usual Narrative, Part I
The Bayh-Dole Act comes about as a response to a series of situations that develop after the federal government takes an interest in supporting basic research conducted at universities. Much goes on. The usual narrative on universities and patent rights … Continue reading
Demonstrate that Bayh-Dole isn’t a disaster
Okay, folks. Here’s your challenge. Demonstrate that Bayh-Dole isn’t a disaster and university patent licensing practice isn’t also a disaster. Here are some observations. Produce evidence to show they are wrong. 1. Commercialization under Bayh-Dole is 100x worse than under the private … Continue reading
Choose Your Open Source License
There’s a useful guide at GitHub for choosing an open source license. The guide presents a developer with three distinct options: These capture three common, primary concerns that show up once one has made the decision to be open with … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Bozonet, Commons, IP, Open Source
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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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Seven Ways Universities Commonly Fail to Comply with Bayh-Dole
University patent administrators and patent policies make a fetish out of compliance with Bayh-Dole. What’s funny is how this fetish is about selective compliance–compliance that advances the power and freedom from accountability for administrators, at the expense of faculty and … Continue reading
Wisconsin continues to defy the US Supreme Court, five years on
Here is an excerpt from the University of Wisconsin’s current patent policy regarding the Bayh-Dole Act, under the heading “Federal Agreements”: In order to expand public use of inventions and in recognition of the need for establishing government-wide policies for the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Policy, Stanford v Roche
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The tick bites deeper into the neck
I know, most of you don’t have time to work through 50 pages of close reading of a university patent policy, with all its levels and inconsistencies and misrepresentations and foolishnesses. Here’s a summary: FSU’s patent policy violates Florida state … Continue reading
New Mis-Guidance on Bayh-Dole for Universities
There’s a very nice guide on the internet to managing federal grants, “A Guide to Managing Federal Grants for Colleges and Universities [now behind a paywall, apparently].” The Guide is published by Atlantic Information Services and looks like it was published … Continue reading