Category Archives: Sponsored Research

University Confusion Over Bayh-Dole and Copyright, 2

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through a recent article posted at Emory University’s technology transfer site [since thankfully removed]. The article claimed that Bayh-Dole has something to do with copyrights and data, asserted that the reporting requirements are complicated, and then fussed … Continue reading →

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University Confusion Over Bayh-Dole and Copyright, 1

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

[This article comments on an article at Emory University’s technology transfer office’s web site. The article has finally been removed, so I have in turn removed some identifying elements. I’m keeping this article up, however, for the discussion of Bayh-Dole … Continue reading →

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Regulatory Blah-Blah and the Public Interest in Inventions

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Look, if two different units of the same company come to you to support research, and the units offer different and conflicting terms for their funding, then you tell them to knock their heads together and figure out just what … Continue reading →

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Discovery and Discovery Management, 2

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

University administrators, too, have oriented their institutions to take advantage of federal funding. Somehow, federal funding increases (to the administrative mind) a university’s prestige, and that prestige then can support raising tuition or getting more funding from state sources and … Continue reading →

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Discovery and Discovery Management, 1

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

How do we discover? That’s a question that keeps coming up in my mind. There are books around that work at this point–to point to some recent examples, Ashton’s How to Fly a Horse, Kauffman’s Investigations, Johnson’s Where Good Ideas … Continue reading →

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Penn State’s Protection Racket, 25: Precarious Position on IP

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

[I have made a few edits for style and clarity, and one update of a citation based on NIST’s renumbering.] Had enough of Penn State? I sure have, but we are not done. Penn State is not an outlier in … Continue reading →

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What should the federal government do with patents it issues to itself? Part 4

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

The question of who ought to control inventions made by independent investigators is at the root of Bayh-Dole. Without federal funding, such investigators would give up rights in inventions only according to their own interests. They would be free of … Continue reading →

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What should the federal government do with patents it issues to itself? Part 3

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Here is one of the most provocative parts of Vannevar Bush’s Science the Endless Frontier: Science Is a Proper Concern of Government It has been basic United States policy that Government should foster the opening of new frontiers. It opened … Continue reading →

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Key Concept 3: FOIL Technology

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

FOIL Technology FOIL is an acronym that stands for “Fragmented Ownership Institutionally Licensed.” Technology that is FOIL is fragmented across institutional owners that then seek to license their portion of the technology for development as a commercial product. FOIL is … Continue reading →

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What should the federal government do with patents it issues to itself? Part 2

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

The Bayh-Dole Dissatisfaction with the Patent System According to its advocates, starting with Sen. Bayh, the idea of behind Bayh-Dole was to require federal agencies to pre-assign their ownership interest in invention contract deliverables to university contractors. It’s a clever … Continue reading →

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