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Category Archives: Bozonet
UC Berkeley to make $160m per year on its patents
University patent policies are, these days, entirely about money, and specifically about the university making money by exploiting patent positions taken from faculty, students, staff, and others. But as money-making policies, they are generally incompetent, foolish, and wasteful. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Technology Transfer
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University of Utah’s New Patent Policy, Part II
The University of Utah has updated its patent policy. We have been through it recently. I had such hopes that Utah would come to its senses and stop mending bad fences. Sadly, instead they head into the void, with a … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Policy, Stanford v Roche
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TLO Summits, Cheap Talk, and Sacrifices
James Mawson has a thoughtful account of a recent meeting at UCSF to discuss how university technology transfer offices could better deal with current conditions for research, licensing, and money. A description of a meeting isn’t, of course, the meeting … Continue reading
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University startups, exits, and candor
The most recent Pitchbook has some interesting information on private equity exits. If university administrators have been sold on the idea that there’s fast cash in startup company equity, there are also data to dampen administrative spirits. The Pitchbook identifies … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics, Policy
Tagged exit, loyal opposition, Pitchbook, startup, University of Washington
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Why is the 1995 NIH "20-20" Guide Still Up?
At the University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property web site we find this NIH Guide, the 20 Questions About Extramural Invention Reporting: The Bayh-Dole Act encourages researchers to patent and market their inventions by guaranteeing patent rights. [No, wait–we find the … Continue reading
AUTM, the clueless inventor-loathing organization
. . . AUTM, of course, is already opposed, using their usual argument that everyone else is a stupid idiot and only AUTM has the intellectual capacity to navigate such “incredibly complex and nuanced matter.” {/vent} AUTM is the organization, … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, clueless, loathing
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The Dumbest Possible Model
It’s hard to describe how devastating the Stanford v Roche decision is to autocracy-minded university bureaucrats. They claimed Bayh-Dole requires university ownership. So they instituted policies that require university ownership, “to comply with Bayh-Dole”. Then they argued in Stanford v Roche … Continue reading
The University D-Economy, Fitt 5
I have been looking at various statements regarding the “D-economy.” It goes by various names–Shanzhai rules, débrouillards, System-D. The Wired write up was interesting. Here is another, from Coley Hudgins at Resilient Family. Here’s another by Robert Neuwirth (who was … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, History, Innovation, Shanzhai, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged bozonet, D-economy, NIPIA, shanzhai
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Please Leave the Den Now
Attorneys analyzing Stanford v Roche and the Bayh-Dole Act from a distance need to understand: Bayh-Dole is directed at federal agencies. It requires agencies to use a standard patent rights clause in their funding agreements. The patent rights clause is … Continue reading
And all your student ideas are belong to us, too!
Students who are also employees, students working on a sponsored project, and students who have used University resources (other than for lecture-based coursework) shall also report all inventions and discoveries to the University’s Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, patent policy
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