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AAU, APLU, and others aim to “bolster” federal technology transfer, 1
AAU has tweeted out its happiness with advice it and other “higher education associations” (APLU, AAMC, COGR, and ACE) have given in response to NIST’s call for public comment on ways to improve federal “technology transfer.” AAU tweets that “Bayh-Dole … Continue reading
Only Bayh-Dole and University Research Enterprise, 3
We are working through Bayh-Dole without the cover of the political bluffery that permitted Bayh-Dole to become national policy. Without the bluffery, Bayh-Dole addresses the same situation addressed previously by the IPA program, which in turn took up the Harbridge … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, History
Tagged (f)(2), 18 USC 242, 37 CFR 401.9, Bayh-Dole, scam, sucks
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AUTM’s invitation to delude yourself, 5
We turn then to the final claim made by AUTM in its “talking points”–the stuff any advocate of Bayh-Dole ought to be repeating to legislators and faculty and anyone else appearing to lack sufficient self-delusion–that none of the fakery presented … Continue reading
AUTM’s invitation to delude yourself, 4
We are working through an AUTM effort to get readers–and especially people wishing to influence federal policy makers on matters of inventions and patents made in faculty-chosen and led research–to self-delude themselves about Bayh-Dole. AUTM cites a GAO report from … Continue reading
AUTM’s invitation to delude yourself, 3
To show how clueless the universities have been about Bayh-Dole–look at this finding from the GAO’s 1998 report on university administration of Bayh-Dole inventions: The policies varied among the universities in connection with how they determined whether the invention was … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet
Tagged AUTM, GAO, manufactured substantially, small business, subject invention
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AUTM’s invitation to delude yourself, 2
Watch this sleight of hand by AUTM, a world leader in cheating with Bayh-Dole. First, a total non sequitur: The Bayh-Dole Act is good for our national economy and also good for state and local economies. The majority of startup … Continue reading
AUTM’s invitation to delude yourself, 1
Here’s AUTM’s “Talking Points” on Bayh-Dole. Let’s read the first paragraph together. The Bayh-Dole Act: It’s Working Actually, there’s no evidence that Bayh-Dole is working because (1) Bayh-Dole makes the evidence a federal secret; (2) universities don’t release the evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet
Tagged AUTM, Bayh-Dole, loopy delusion
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When experts cheat at Bayh-Dole, bonus
It is almost impossible to detect when experts cheat. In the Tale of the Ring of Gyges, in Plato’s Republic, a shepherd finds a magic ring that makes him invisible. He then launches himself on a crime spree and ends … Continue reading
When experts cheat at Bayh-Dole
In the classic guide to cheating at cards, The Expert at the Card Table, the point gets made that an expert cheater can cheat regardless of the watchfulness of anyone who expects him or her to cheat. An expert cheat … Continue reading
Perhaps Riding on Hiccups
People ask, “So if Bayh-Dole isn’t the best possible solution for federally supported inventions, what is?” There are variations–“How can we improve technology transfer under Bayh-Dole?” Or, more of an assertion–“There’s no point in criticizing Bayh-Dole if you don’t have … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet
Tagged arbitrary, Bayh-Dole, bureaucrat, dada, glockenspiel, hiccups, uniform
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