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Category Archives: Present Assignment
The Agent Choice Genius of Bayh-Dole
In the past I’ve tried to outline how Bayh-Dole works. What this means is how the standard patent rights clause in federal funding agreements works. This in turn requires us to get at why the (f)(2) agreement is so essential. … Continue reading
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The Double-Cross
The question has come up: doesn’t a present assignment approach protect faculty from the conniving tricks of companies that will cheat them out of their rightful royalties to inventions? The answer is no. It won’t–not as a condition of employment … Continue reading
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Faculty employees
Employers own their employees’ work Faculty are employees Therefore universities own the work of faculty Is it that simple? Let’s look at it two ways. First, from the perspective that this reasoning is actually how someone comes to the conclusion … Continue reading
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Are university faculty employees wrt research IP?
Are faculty “employees” for the purpose of intellectual property in research? I argue they are not. Here’s a sketch of my reasoning. Consider: Faculty choose their research topics. They choose where they will do their work (university or not). They … Continue reading
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A compulsory policy so messed up, it must be voluntary!
11. The present assignment is so incompetently constructed it boggles the mind. In a prior post, I included the above in a list of problems with UW’s implementation of present assignments. I added this one because, well, UW’s “goes to … Continue reading
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7 Points on the *UW* Present Assignment Requirement
There has been some discussion going on about the recent UC UW requirement that everyone sign a new patent acknowledgement outside work request form, this one with a present assignment in it, with the claim that this change is needed … Continue reading
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SB 6542 in Star Trek
SB 6542 will force universities to a voluntary IP program, and is being opposed by administrators who believe it is a virtue to place institutional self-interest ahead of individual liberty…. Translated into Star Trek (TOS), it’s something like this:
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On the Central Control of Research Innovation
Global University Venturing has published an essay that explores yet another aspect of the present assignment situation, exploring the effect of institutional claims on the dynamics of innovation. In the essay I try to put in the context the arguments … Continue reading
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When public mission = money
I have been emphasizing organizational conflict of interest. Most universities have no policy on such things, and therefore technology transfer has been allowed to make a transition from a broadly faculty-led activity with a diversity of practices reflecting the range … Continue reading
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The Star Trek Version of Ohio Revised Code 3345.14, Again
Sometimes it helps to transform a problem to see how it stacks up in a familiar notation. This is done frequently in physics, for instance, where one might find a particle development advantageous over a wave-based notation for some calculations. … Continue reading
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Tagged 3345.14, inventions, Ohio Revised Code, respect card, Star Trek
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