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Category Archives: Patents
10 Ways Universities Deal in Patents
I have been thinking about how university technology transfer is depicted, versus how it actually happens. The depictions are something of a prophetic hope–inventions reported to the university’s licensing office will be evaluated for “commercial potential” and those that look … Continue reading
Posted in Patents, Technology Transfer
Tagged nothing ever happens, patents
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Inventors would own more, were it not for noncompliant Bayh-Dole practice
I saw this tweet this morning: I agree Inventors should own more, but institutions were/are the heart of Bayh-Dole that (arguably) enables IP-driven startups… this is bc many/most PI inventions would go into a black hole without tech transfer officer … Continue reading
Why not let’s try, Frank?
Frank Cullen, writing at the “Council for Innovation Promotion” has posted a hand-wringing response to a letter from members of Congress to the Secretary of Health and Human Services requesting that the government use Bayh-Dole’s march-in provisions to address price … Continue reading
Cornboard, Part 2
Despite various announcements about possible products and manufacturing, Cornboard Manufacturing appears not to have manufactured much of anything by the time the Illinois patent expired in 2016. Although the company did not “disappear” like Illinois’s first exclusive licensee, it did … Continue reading
Posted in Patents, Startups
Tagged cornboard, patent, shipping pallet
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Cornboard, Part 1
The Bayh-Dole Coalition, an evidence-free lobbying organization in support of not enforcing Bayh-Dole’s public protections, tweeted today a “success” story: Success Story! @UofIllinois 3 Researchers developed a product known as “CornBoard”, a way to make composite materials from corn to … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Patents, Technology Transfer
Tagged cornboard, Illinois, invention, skateboard
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Mixing Two Governments’ Funding
Here’s an interesting statement of government rights in a University of Arizona patent, 9239453 B2. (I’d link to the USPTO patent server, but since the change in search software, it’s not obviously possible.): GOVERNMENT RIGHTS (1) This invention was made … Continue reading
The use of the patent system for federal research results, 7: Failure of FSA 110-1 to establish a middle ground
Let’s look more carefully at this second possibility beyond the possibility of open access–and where the “generally” in FSA 110-1 gets triggered to make at an attempted middle ground between always open access and full-on use of patents to exclude … Continue reading
Posted in History, Patents, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 110, bother, excessive, FSA, middle ground, unreasonable
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 6: The seeming middle ground
While the FSA policy makes what appears to be nice gestures–royalty-free licensing or at least licensing without unreasonable restrictions and without excessive royalties–there’s little here to provide guidance so far. The policy continues, looking at the prong in which the … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Patents, Policy
Tagged 110-1, conditional, limited, open access
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 4: Forman
We are looking slowly at FSA order 110-1, the policy that starts the administrative battle over how federal funding ought to affect company opportunities to profit on matters of public health. The FSA, having insisted that research results should be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Patents, Policy
Tagged 110, Forman, FSA, public interest, reasonable
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 3: FSA 110-1 and public interest
Federal policy on inventions made in federally supported research starts in a big way with Federal Security Agency Order 110-1, dated December 30, 1952. Norman Latker, patent counsel for the NIH, in 1978 testimony before Senator Nelson’s subcommittee, identified Order … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, History, Innovation, Open Source, Patents, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 110, FSA, public interest
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