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Category Archives: Sponsored Research
The Minimum Policy
As you may have noticed, I have been working through ownership issues for inventions made under Bayh-Dole. A question that has come up is: What’s the minimum policy required at a university to implement Bayh-Dole? It would appear that a … Continue reading
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Apply It Like It Is S v R
(Note: this post continues from the previous one. I don’t take up the particulars of the Stanford v. Roche case, and I wish the disputants, the judges, the attorneys and inventors all the best. Here, I aim to show how … Continue reading
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Tagged assignment, Bayh-Dole, Stanford v Roche
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What Happens?
I’ve spent some time in previous posts mapping out ways title to inventions is managed under Bayh-Dole. I’ve argued that Bayh-Dole sets up an apparatus of disclosure and obligation that permits a range of practices by universities while protecting government … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, Stanford v Roche
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Why Can't We Be Friends?
Yesterday I read through the amicus curae brief filed by WARF, AUTM, UC, and others. I thought about it on the commute home, and read it over some more last night and early this morning. I’m bothered, and not just … Continue reading
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Pining for Fjords
[Note: This post was written two years before Stanford v Roche was decided by the US Supreme Court, which held that Bayh-Dole does not vest title to inventions made in federally supported work with the contractor but rather governs the … Continue reading
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Pursuing A-110
OMB Circular A-110 sets the overall federal policy for the funding of university research. Within A-110, Bayh-Dole appears as a section within __.36, which pertains to Intangible Property. Other sections of __.36 address copyright and data. There are other federal … Continue reading
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Layers Confusion
Folks confuse research and administrative layers in making research arrangements. Research is about the conduct of inquiry. It carries certain conventions. Folks don’t generally sign contracts to work together, publish together–it’s a complex household, where there are commitments and shared … Continue reading
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Confidentiality Agreements
There’s a topic header for this over at the University & Industry Innovation Forum. I’ve put a summary there. Here, I’ll post a fuller discussion. As with other areas of discussion on industry-university arrangements, confidentiality triggers cascades of reasoning. This … Continue reading
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Tagged confidentiality agreements, contracts, research
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RTEI IM
[RTEI IM is now a Twitter feed. Follow @umbut] An experiment. If you are working in a research environment that is facing a challenge, RTEI is available to offer general assistance. One way to get in touch is to use … Continue reading
Points of Engagement
In Culture and Prosperity, John Kay observes that “we work in organizations, earn as individuals, and consume as households.” A similar observation can be made of university research–faculty work in a university context, as principal investigators take on research with … Continue reading
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