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Category Archives: Policy
The bogus argument for “mixing” research funds, 1
The Council on Government Relations, a university front group, published a “tutorial” that advocated that universities adopt a “uniform” policy on patents. COGR’s argument was that since administrators wanted to be able to “mix” funding from different sources, and the government … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
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How Bayh-Dole went wrong and what might be done, 5
Moving to a new platform that’s really what Vannever Bush first proposed If you see this difference between an approach that transfers the government’s right and the Bayh-Dole approach, which attempts to transfer ownership of patentable inventions directly to institutions, … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
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How Bayh-Dole went wrong and what might be done, 1
This article starts a series on structural problems in Bayh-Dole. As an architecture to take ownership of inventions from university investigators, Bayh-Dole suffers from significant flaws. The effort by university patent brokers and their biotech partners has been to cover … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Stanford v Roche
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 14
The start is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Three sorts of university invention We can then distinguish three sorts of invention arising in federally funded research at universities: inventive tools, inventive tools that can be sold … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 13
Things start here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 The Harbridge House report According to the Harbridge House report on federal patent policy, from the 1930s until the 1950s, the pharmaceutical industry was the primary source of funding … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged certainty of title, Harbridge House, IPA, NIH, pharmaceutical industry
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 12
This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 How history informs the present Why spend all this time on a lost university policy from 1969 in response to a canceled IPA program? After all, we have … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 11
The article starts way back at 1: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Capitalism and commons The dichotomy between capitalism and commons is even evident in the history of WARF. Here’s a footnote from Cronon and Jenkins on … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 10
This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Medicinal chemistry drives the whole of federal patent policy The IPA program, revived in 1968 by the NIH following the Harbridge House report, which singled out medicinal chemistry … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 5-FU, Bayh-Dole, capital, commons, PHS, public interest, WARF
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The Bush Engine of Technology Innovation
Vannevar Bush argued that it was a proper role for the federal government to support scientific research. This proposition today is regarded as a truth that hardly needs justification. But in Science the Endless Frontier, Bush was not arguing for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged BETI, free play of free intellects, Vannevar Bush
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 9
The beginning: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Research deliverables Bayh-Bole, as it turns out, will be a statute that limits the scope of patent property rights in federally supported inventions, but in such an obtuse way that … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, Bobblespace, Harvard, patent policy, research, WARF, whole hog
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