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What Happens Here is Excluded Here
I was in Mexico recently as part of a 5 week training program for new technology transfer professionals. Our piece of the training was negotiation and licensing. The participants had brought with them real world examples from their own institutions–opportunities … Continue reading
Research- [ of | on | with ]
There’s one more important area of research invention use, and that is as a research tool. In the practice, we can differentiate three kinds of tool activity, in addition to throwing bones into the air and heading for monoliths orbiting … Continue reading
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The Iron Man
This is good stuff. Makes my point. There is room for some iron in the discussion, just not with the waiters, and it doesn’t have to come out until after hours.
Posted in IP, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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Waiters Packing Heat
A basic question I ask university tech transfer officers is this: in a licensing situation for university IP, who is it who first needs a contract? I get a lot of interesting answers to this. But here’s the thing. It’s … Continue reading
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Pathway Dependence
Let’s look at a licensing situation set up two different ways. The purpose is to illustrate pathway dependence of an offer. Let’s say we have an invention with an associated patent right and a university laboratory willing to engage industry … Continue reading
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You Know You Are In Deep When…
Attorneys won’t help you figure things out without 1) a dispute and 2) getting paid. There’s a point at which the law becomes whatever someone wanting to get their way is willing to argue for. Until then, it is really … Continue reading
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The Third Flavor
What’s not perhaps so obvious is how much variation and structure there is in the third flavor of technology transfer, from lab to application. We have four venues for this work: independent inventors, industry labs, government labs, and university labs. … Continue reading
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Cooperative Competition
The Tour de France finished up at the end of July. The strategies of bicycle racing help to illustrate the practical nature of competition. In bicycle racing, there’s a mechanical advantage in being behind another racer. Trailing racers move into … Continue reading
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Frame Agreements
Over in the “Pages” area on the upper right I am starting to add illustrative documents that show how one can extend research enterprise to include open innovation, commons, collaborative research, and the like. The first of these involves frame … Continue reading
It’s not an invention until….
For an invention to be made, it has to be recognized as inventive by the inventor. See MPEP 2138. “There must be a contemporaneous recognition and appreciation of the invention for there to be conception.” For university investigators, this means … Continue reading