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Category Archives: Commons
Why dealing in patent monopolies is bad for university research
[updated to add some comments among the elements of the list] Bayh-Dole expands the opportunity for universities to deal in patent monopolies on inventions made in federally supported work. Bayh-Dole does not require such behavior, does not give any special … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Freedom, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, exclusivity, patent monopoly
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Open: The proper (and effective) role for public institutions in invention management
There are many things we could do, but choose not to do. Some of those things, people could make money doing, but we refuse. We could sell body parts, or eat them, or we could make people slaves–good money in … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, broker, exclusive rights, factor
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Research Enterprise Policy Issues: fragmentation of noisy research
We have looked at noisy research and quiet research. Policy folks don’t much care, but it appears to make a difference whether research is conducted quietly or noisily. In quiet research, variations are explored, applications considered, data assembled, evidence checked … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Innovation, Policy
Tagged commercialization, federal funding, fragmentation, noisy research
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The new rule
I once created a game I called “Tradition.” I was trying to find games with simple rule sets. In Tradition, the only rule was you could make a rule or make a move. At the outset, then, the only move … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Innovation, Shanzhai, Social Science
Tagged adventure, commons, knights, life, management, self-organization, tradition
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A century of reaping enormous profits at the expense of sickness and misfortune, 1
In June 1917, the United States had just entered the first world war against Germany, and a German chemical maker through its American subsidiary Farbwerke-Hoechst held U.S. patents on salvarsan, a medicine used to treat syphilis. Along letters written on … Continue reading
Nixon’s Need and Encouragement
In a series of articles we have dealt with the monopoly meme. The monopoly meme argues that the true purpose of patents is the corporate right to exclude all others from practicing an invention. Without this right of exclusion, so … Continue reading
What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 3
Now we arrive at the source of the NIH’s conflation in its most recent “background” misrepresentation of Bayh-Dole. We are deep into the federally owned invention side of Bayh-Dole, section 209(a), in a list of the requirements that must be … Continue reading
What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 2
We are working through the NIH’s most recent misrepresentation of the Bayh-Dole Act. In the first part of this effort, we looked at the NIH’s bungling of the basic premise of Bayh-Dole and the concept of practical application. Bayh-Dole’s first … Continue reading
WARF, Vitamin D, and the Public Interest, 3
The appeals court in Vitamin Technologists sets up the case for compulsory licensing of inventions owned by public universities as instruments of state governments. That is, the appeals court establishes the basis for public march-in when a state owns a … Continue reading
WARF, Vitamin D, and the Public Interest, 2
We have worked through a 1945 appeals court reasoning about the University of Wisconsin’s president’s refusal to allow the licensing of an invention beneficial to public health for use in food products that might compete with State of Wisconsin dairy … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, History, Policy
Tagged 35 USC 200, 35 USC 202, Bayh-Dole, Canned Water 4 Kids, IPA, monopoly meme, public interest
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