Category Archives: Policy

The urge to tech transfer

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Technology transfer refers to the movement of capability from one group to another.  Three conventional forms are from a developed country to a developing country (send in the tractors, there have to be tractors); from one industry to another (wifi … Continue reading →

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Assigning the SPRC

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Melba Kurman asks in a comment to the previous post that I discuss assignment of the SPRC in more detail. Melba has an interesting blog on university technology management, so check it out here. [The blog has been retired–but for … Continue reading →

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OMG! no OTL required!

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

An amazing consequence of the Bayh-Dole Act is that no university technology transfer office is required for its implementation.  No OTL, no affiliated research foundation, no nuthin’.   A university can operate perfectly well under standard patent rights clauses by waiving … Continue reading →

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Back to the Past

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Bayh-Dole applies to federal agencies.  It sets a uniform protocol for how they are to contract with universities for invention rights.   Everything about how Bayh-Dole reaches to universities is by way of agreements and choices.  And it is by agreements … Continue reading →

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The Secret Fingers-Crossed Version of Bayh-Dole

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

[This article was written before the Supreme Court decided Stanford v Roche (June, 2011). It was also written before NIST did its crazy stupid overhaul of the codification of Bayh-Dole at 37 CFR 401, changing references and adding its dumber … Continue reading →

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Making the Connection

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Under the standard patent rights clause (SPRC) in a federal funding agreement, a university is required to obtain the agreement of its research employees (that is, other than its clerical and non-technical employees) to protect the government’s interest.  The requirement … Continue reading →

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Five Key Elements of Open Innovation

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

I work with five key elements in open innovation business models: critical mass congestion externalities weak ties drivers Critical mass is a restatement that open doesn’t matter if it’s solitary. There has to be at least another player. Generally, a … Continue reading →

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IP for nuthin' and your deals for free

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

In IP relationships, I talk about the “Big Five”: Ownership Control Money Attribution Risk In the most basic treatment of IP, folks tend to introduce these in binaries.  Perhaps the most common is ownership for money.  But in licensing, it’s … Continue reading →

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How the Grudging Farmer Really Feels About the Hens

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Here is an entirely typical start to a university IP policy.  I have picked it almost at random.  I don’t have any particular agenda with the school involved.  This sort of reading can be done with most any university’s IP … Continue reading →

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Not a Flying Toy–Extended

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Gerald Barnett

This is part of the discussion I posted previously at Techno-L on 11/3/09. I’m putting it up here for the sake of assembling the various takes on this issue. It lays out some of the diverse ways Bayh-Dole could be … Continue reading →

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