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Category Archives: IP
Your transfer to the unknown has come through
You know, the money sweet spot for invention commercialization is to take acute conditions and make them chronic. That’s like a drug to treat the pain rather than an intervention that cures the condition causing the pain, or providing protection … Continue reading
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A New Kind of Innovation Practice
Sloppy practice leaves university technology transfer programs exposed to claims of failure of consideration and lack of just compensation. A better way is to return to voluntary practice. Continue reading
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Opening up technology transfer
Open innovation presents challenges to conventional forms of university technology transfer, even as the conventional forms are a start at open innovation. Continue reading
Posted in Commons, IP, Social Science
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We have questions
When we interpret Bayh-Dole as a social text, we get beyond the immediate claims and into a territory that tests our competence. Continue reading
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Artifact, Invention, Technology, Change
University research technology often takes the form of artifacts. Often the academic discussion is about the merit of research objectives in terms of demonstrating, proving out, or advancing a concept or theory or argument. The “technology” that results is treated … Continue reading
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Pressing the Issues
What are the pressing issues facing university “technology transfer”? If we start with how to encourage a rich engagement between research inquiry and the broader community, we are at the nub of it. The particular variety of engagement called technology … Continue reading
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Is This as Good as It Gets?
One of the biggest problems with university technology transfer is that it cannot manage deliberative rhetoric. Everything is criticism, and the criticism is construed to attack the idea of technology transfer, Bayh-Dole, and/or the competency of those working in the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, IP, Literature, Metrics, Social Science
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Look What They Make Us Give
Maybe it’s all too clear. In the case of an employee bringing the scope of authorized private consulting into federally funded research, the issue is not the mechanism of the obligation to convey title, but the scope. The problem is … Continue reading
Scoping Present Assignments
Another thought experience. Imagine if you will a university faculty member, who we will call F. F’s university requires F to agree to a patent policy that used to say, F promises to assign title to all inventions that the … Continue reading
The AbyNormal Patent Act
We are working through what Bayh-Dole did and didn’t do in managing federally funded inventions made at universities. If you are with me, we did a “thought experience” (not “experiment”). Then I got all grumpy about rhetoric. But that’s out … Continue reading
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