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Category Archives: Policy
University of Utah’s Mount Stupid Disclosure Claim, 1
Here is a bit from the University of Utah’s web site. The general topic is final invention reporting for grant close out. Here’s the statement of interest (bold in the original, links removed): All University employees are responsible to disclose all … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Policy, Present Assignment, Sponsored Research
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Available to one, developed by none, 2
We are working through the political argument that without a patent monopoly, federally supported research will never get used or developed into commercial products or ever benefit the public. It’s flowery language meant to lead those who hear or read … Continue reading
Available to one, developed by none, 1
A repeated argument regarding inventions made with federal support was that the public would benefit from these inventions only if companies invested substantial amounts of private capital in developing the inventions as commercial products. Without commercial development at private expense, … Continue reading
Posted in History, IP, Policy, Projects, Technology Transfer
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University of Manitoba’s Transformational Partnerships, 5 Years On
Five years ago on this date I posted an article about the University of Manitoba’s bold new venture to transfer inventions made in sponsored research without charging anything but a running royalty on actual sales. There’s all sorts of things … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged contract research, Manitoba, royalty, transformational
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Bayh-Dole–six parts real, one part faux
Bayh-Dole is a law in six real parts and one faux part. There’s a policy part (35 USC 200, 201, 206, 210-212); requirements for contractor owned inventions (35 USC 202(a, b), 203, 204, 205); requirements for federally owned inventions (35 … Continue reading
Bayh-Dole’s only purpose is to exploit public suffering for profit
The Bayh-Dole Act was created to permit the pharmaceutical industry to gain patent monopolies over inventions in medicinal chemistry made with federal government support. I have been through the history. I have worked through law for a decade. I practiced … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Bayh-Dole, bluster, Stanford v Roche
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The Biddle Report’s Perfectly Fine Assumptions
From time to time, I revisit territory. I wrote about this issue almost two years ago, now. I provide here a different angle that gets at the same point. Here’s Sean O’Connor proposing that a flawed assumption in the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Stanford v Roche
Tagged assignment, assumption, Bayh-Dole, Biddle, faux, O'Connor
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The National Patent Planning Commission argument for government-created private patent monopolies, 3
The National Patent Planning Commission quotes administration officials repeating this same argument. Here’s the Under Secretary of Agriculture (1941): The commercial exploitation of new inventions requires, in many cases, the expenditure of large sums of money. In such a case, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy
Tagged invention, National Patent Planning Commission, patent, pharma, Vannevar Bush
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The National Patent Planning Commission argument for government-created private patent monopolies, 2
We are looking at the National Patent Planning Commission argument that the government should be permitted to grant exclusive patent licenses on inventions that it acquires. The basic position is that it is a good thing that the government should … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy
Tagged Archie Palmer, National Patent Planning Commission, patents, university research
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The National Patent Planning Commission argument for government-created private patent monopolies, 1
I have been working through reports from the mid 1940s on government ownership of patents. There are a number of arguments against government exploitation of patents, but these arguments clearly failed. What arguments won out? Here’s one, from the National … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy
Tagged National Patent Planning Commission, open source, PARC, patent, Richard White, Steven Johnson
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