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The Bush Engine of Technology Innovation
Vannevar Bush argued that it was a proper role for the federal government to support scientific research. This proposition today is regarded as a truth that hardly needs justification. But in Science the Endless Frontier, Bush was not arguing for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged BETI, free play of free intellects, Vannevar Bush
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 9
The beginning: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Research deliverables Bayh-Bole, as it turns out, will be a statute that limits the scope of patent property rights in federally supported inventions, but in such an obtuse way that … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Bobblespace, Harvard, patent policy, research, WARF, whole hog
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 8
The start of this article is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 More WARF Antitrust: 5-FU WARF encountered multiple antitrust problems. Consider this account from Cronon and Jenkins: This is pre-Bayh-Dole, of course, but also pre-revived IPA, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 5-fluorouracil, 5-FU, antitrust, Bayh-Dole, IPA, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 7
The start of this article is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 WARF’s Charter and Antitrust WARF’s charter was designed to prevent the University of Wisconsin from using its money for non-scientific research–social sciences, humanities, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged antitrust, march-in, patent, policy, public covenant, scientific research, Steenbock, vitamin D, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 6
The first installment of this article is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 WARF’s Design In 1999, Edmund Cronon and John Jenkins included a chapter on the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in their history of the University of … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, captive venture, Cottrell, Cronon, invisible hand, Jenkins, Research Corporation, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 5
Start here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 The new 1969 Wisconsin patent policy broadens the scope of the university’s interest in patents yet further: Here is the Wisconsin IPA definition of “subject invention”: Both elements are essential … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged cleverly crafted scheme, institutional conflict of interest, IPA, ordinary skill in the art, patent policy, scope, subject invention, subvention, Wisconsin
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 4
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 One might see how, if university administrators believe that they have become, for invention purposes, the federal sponsor of the research, that they could also come to believe … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, deliverables, institutional conflict of interest, IPA, Kennedy, patent agreement, patent policy, posi, presumption, WARF, Wisconsin
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 3
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 In most cases, a principal investigator will know immediately whether an invention or discovery is within scope of a well drafted research agreement–is this invention something that was … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged Bayh-Dole, IPA, private risk capital, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 2
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 In the new 1969 Wisconsin patent policy, we encounter a corporate agent and the passive voice: “it has become necessary for the University to scrutinize with care the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged disclosure, institutional patent agreement, invention, IPA, Kennedy, WARF, Wisconsin
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Bayh-Dole’s restrictions on Pigpen use of licensing income, IV
We may posit that for any “concept” that we can pull out of the air, there’s an implied “cost” to make that concept into a “commercial product.” We could imagine a walking cat-bus, say. We could work out the robotics, … Continue reading