Category Archives: Innovation

The Kind of Stuff I Do

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

While working on a book chapter on Bayh-Dole and university IP practice, I thought that it might be helpful to put together in one place a description of the sorts of projects I have worked on and continue enjoy being … Continue reading →

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A Good Worry for 2013

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

Edge has published its question and answers for 2013:  “What *should* we be worried about?”  If you are not acquainted with Edge, it is a continuing conversation started by John Brockman to get scientists and artists to compare notes, as … Continue reading →

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Universities for Innovation and the Export of Defective Bayh-Dole

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

In looking at how the American university administrator’s version of Bayh-Dole has been exported to the world, I came across legislation in India that proposes creating a new class of “innovation” universities.  According to a story in the Chronicle of … Continue reading →

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Undoing the Research Myth in the Linear Model

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Gerald Barnett

Joe Lane and Benoît Godin are out with another paper that follows up on their Science Progress discussion. In their new paper, they argue that innovation arises along three related areas of activity–scientific research, engineering development, and production. Each of … Continue reading →

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Keeping open 3d printing innovation open

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced an effort to monitor 3d printing patent applications for possible Pre-issuance Submission actions.  PIS is a new procedure in the America Invents Act patent reform that allows the public to provide patent examiners with … Continue reading →

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University Innovation Bill of Rights

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

Here are 10 elements for a university innovation Bill of Rights: 1. The university shall make no ownership claims to faculty or student scholarship, including inventions and discoveries, as a condition of employment, use of resources, or participation in sponsored … Continue reading →

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The Box of Technology Transfer

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

In The Marketplace of Ideas:  Reform and Resistance in the American University, Louis Menand works his way through the angst that is the lot of the English professor mired in a world of humanities departments who have lost their way … Continue reading →

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Luck. Goodwill. Diligence.

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

I have a hypothesis, not made idly: University innovation comes about primarily as a combination of luck, goodwill, and diligence, typically in that order of importance. Most of the major university licensing transactions appear to have followed this pathway. Something … Continue reading →

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Research Shanzhai

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

In the Teece formulation, innovation represents a competition among first movers, imitators, and infrastructure.  Each aims for a share of the value of something new and worthwhile.  Patents might be thought to aid the inventor, giving him or her a … Continue reading →

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If Siri were free of rights, would there be a Siri?

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

Here is another article out today, from Peter Cohan, arguing that the US patent system should be scrapped.  Are we are well past being able to reform it?  Cohan’s five reasons don’t include regulatory capture, market inefficiencies, the march to … Continue reading →

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