Category Archives: Policy

Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 10: Copyright

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

The new Penn State IP policy preserves the start of the 1991 policy paragraph that takes up copyright, but adds additional garbleness. No longer are authors “urged” to use university management services. Instead: University-directed works are those created at the … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 9: Rationalizations

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Penn State’s new IP policy adds a “Note” that attempts to rationalize the requirements of the policy. The 1991 policy also had a “Note” in the same location, but that note was directed to an entirely different purpose, having to … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 8: Disclosure

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through Penn State’s current IP policy. We have noted that the IP policy asserts that the IP Agreement, which many categories of people must sign, requires assignment of IP to the university, but the IP Agreement itself … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 7: Expanding Categories

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Let’s move to the second paragraph of the Penn State’s current IP policy, which continues the university’s fixation with categories of personnel who must “complete and sign” an IP Agreement: As a condition of employment, the Intellectual Property Agreement is required to … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 6: Problems with the RIP Loop

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are comparing Penn State’s 1991 and current IP policies to see what has been changed. When we are done, we will then do the same thing with the 1992 and current IP Agreements. Current Penn State IP policy refers to … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 5: Commercial Potential

Posted on August 4, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We have looked at legacy Penn State IP policy–from 1940 and from 1991. And we have worked through an especially bad piece of drafting in the Penn State IP Agreement, which ignores IP policy, conflates patents and copyrights, garbles Bayh-Dole … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 4: The 1992 IP Agreement, con’t

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Now we can look at Part B of Penn State’s 1992 IP Agreement. Part B concerns extramural contracts and starts with another general statement: I also understand that, whenever I am associated with activities which are financially supported by contracts … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 3: The 1992 IP Agreement, con’t

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are looking at the Penn State IP Agreement in its 1992 form. Part (A) of the agreement sets out what appears on the surface to be a broad scope for inventions (and other stuff) to be assigned to the … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 2: The 1992 IP Agreement, Part A

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Penn State manages its IP by means of an IP policy statement and an IP Agreement form. The policy statement made effective in 1991 requires various university personnel (including in the category “academic”–whatever that means) to “complete” an IP Agreement … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s IP Protection Racket, 1: Working Through the 1991 IP Policy

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Hey, let’s compare Penn State’s “Intellectual Property Agreement” from 1992 with the present version. I know, just what you were hoping to do today–identify  policy changes to see how Penn State created its IP protection racket. To get there, we’ll … Continue reading →

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