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Category Archives: Policy
The Very Model of a Modern University IP Policy Preamble
Recently, I have worked through intellectual property policies at Michigan and Texas. No university administrator is willing to write “We demand to own your work to try to make money, preferably by partnering with monopolist speculators.” That would violate the … Continue reading
From provider to predator: University of Texas patent policy, Part 4
In 2005, BethLynn Maxwell, a patent attorney then in the Intellectual Property Section of the Office of General Counsel for the University of Texas System, published a brief article on the Bayh-Dole Act, “Twenty-Five Years After Bayh-Dole” in the Office of … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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From provider to predator: University of Texas patent policy, Part 3
In Part 2 of this series I compared the preambles of the 1977 and 1988 versions of the University of Texas System patent-cum-intellectual property policies. The 1946 policy was so straightforward that it did not need a preamble. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, History, Policy, Stanford v Roche
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From provider to predator: University of Texas patent policy, Part 2
In Part 1, we considered the 1946 University of Texas patent policy–clear, simple, smart–and the 1977 revision that grew more complicated but retained a focus on patents and the rights of inventors to decide whether to seek patents or just … Continue reading
From provider to predator: University of Texas patent policy, Part 1
I have previously looked at the University of Texas System intellectual property policy (“Texas wants you anyway“; “The most wonderful thing in the world“). I find myself drawn back to it again and again. In its 2012 version, the Texas … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Policy
Tagged administrative brain, mandate of heaven, patent policy, predator, University of Texas
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Penn State’s Pscyhomagnotheric IP Policy
[I have restored some broken links–I will have to revisit to see how Penn State has dealt with its goofy policy drafting. 15 Nov 2022.] Four years ago, Penn State announced that it was adopting a new policy to allow industry … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Bozonet, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged employment, IP, Penn State, research
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Effects, uncontested, are a policy's objectives
After 35 years, no reliable data on federally supported technology transfer Here is Sylvia Kraemer, writing in Science and Technology Policy in the United States (2006), on a fundamental problem in federal research policy identified by a Department of Commerce … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Science at the Frontier and the Effect of the Linear Model
In Science the Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush proposed federal funding to universities to expand the frontiers of science. Folks these days focus on the science part of Bush’s proposal and his advocacy for funding research at universities. They skip over the idea … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, History, Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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Vannevar Bush and the Unexpected Model of Innovation
In Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action, Sylvia Kraemer spends a section of a chapter discussing Vannevar Bush and Science the Endless Frontier. Kraemer agrees that Science the Endless Frontier is an important document in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged AUTM, Benoit Godin, innovation, linear model, Sylvia Kraemer, tea, Vannevar Bush
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Abstraction as an Obfuscating Drafting Technique in University Patent Policies
The Arizona Board of Regents intellectual property policy fails to state, simply, that the Board expects to own patentable inventions made by employees who have agreed to assign their inventions to the Board. Instead, the Board policy fusses around with … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, IP, Policy
Tagged Arizona State, holes, metonymy, NYU, obfuscation, policy, Washington University
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