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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 7: Transfer pathways
We are working through what a university patent policy should look like to support effective technology transfer practices. The Eat and Fart model–claim ownership of everything and mostly fart away opportunities to transfer so long as one exclusive deal every … Continue reading
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Tagged leading asset, patent license, scenario, transfer pathway, workshop
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 5: Transfer relationships and leading assets
We are working on university patent policies for effective technology transfer. I have described the Eat and Fart model that dominates university patent practice: eat everything, fart a lot, and drop a financial turd once every decade or two to … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged adjacent possible, dinking, eat and fart, effective, relationship, technology transfer
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 3: Yale patent policy on exclusive licensing
University patent policies do not address exclusive licensing, and yet exclusive licensing is at the core of much current university patent practice. Exclusive licensing is the key thing that Bayh-Dole enabled. And Bayh-Dole, in its federal agency licensing authorization, pees … Continue reading
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Tagged exclusive license, patent policy, Yale
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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 7: Grubbers, innovation, and march-in
Reflections on Bayh-Dole by “industry leaders”–who are, apparently, mostly shills out shilling for (and to) the pharmaceutical industry. Good shilling earns shillings, so it is a viable career choice. We use these shills reflecting on Bayh-Dole to also reflect on … Continue reading
Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 6: Fragmentation, lockup, and babble talk
We are still reflecting on reflections on Bayh-Dole. It’s a hall of mirrors, with reflections all the way down to the insubstantial substance of the operation of the statute itself. We continue with a reflection on a reflection of what … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy
Tagged babble talk, bureaucrats, fragmentation, lockup
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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 5: Incentives and basic research
We have been working through a set of reflections on Bayh-Dole by a set of patents-in-healthcare shills. We are at this claim: prior to the Act, the government often funded research to spark innovation, but then put the research in … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy
Tagged basic resaerch, incentive, research, selectivity
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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 4: Fake history, executive branch patent policy, and contamination
Back to reflecting on fake history, namely this: prior to the Act, the government often funded research to spark innovation, but then put the research in the public domain for non-exclusive licensing,… Executive branch patent policy from Kennedy on (until … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, contamination, eat this pickle, public health
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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 3: Fake history, sparking innovation, and a pernicious requirement
[I have made revisions and additions and placed the second half of this article in part 4.] We are still reflecting on reflections on Bayh-Dole by “leaders” hoping that you will follow them. More: prior to the Act, the government … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, leaders, NSF, pernicious plan, Vannevar Bush
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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 2: Commercialization and certainty
We are working through reflections of Bayh-Dole made by some iron rings in cows’ noses that claim to give milk–er, “industry leaders.” The exercise is useful not merely to mock them for their nonsense–mockery is here salutory and inclusive–but also … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, certainty, commercialization
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 2: Non-exclusive, voluntary, negotiated practice for effective technology transfer
We will get into the operational details of non-exclusive, voluntary, negotiated university IP management for effective technology transfer. Short answer–everything is navigable and has already been done, even if folks have forgotten how to do it. We can look at … Continue reading
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Tagged crappy, non-exclusive, patent policy, technology transfer
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