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What’s uniform and what should never be, Part 3
There are, then, three entry points for the IPA approach re-established by Norm Latker at HEW in 1968. First, an agency may allow a university to acquire rights at the time of contracting at the agency director’s discretion–if doing so is … Continue reading
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What’s uniform and what should never be, Part 2
In 1963, President Kennedy created a government-wide federal policy to address when and how federal agencies might consider allowing patent rights to remain with a contractor–any contractor, not just universities, and under any contract–not just procurement but also grants-in-aid or subventions. From … Continue reading
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What’s uniform and what should never be, Part 1
One of the common description of the Bayh-Dole Act is that it established “uniform” federal patent policy: Enacted on December 12, 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517, Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of 1980) created a uniform patent policy among the many federal agencies that … Continue reading
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Actual reduction to practice
In working through some of the legislative background to the failed effort to make the IPA template government-wide, I came across a curious passage in testimony attributed to the Library of Congress Research Service. The Service was addressing the issue … Continue reading
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Research and Development
In 2 CFR 215 (Circular A-110), we find definitions of research and development (dd): Research and development means all research activities, both basic and applied, and all development activities that are supported at universities, colleges, and other non-profit institutions. This … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole, the love monster of patent attorneys and speculators
Joe Allen has written a new piece warning of the dangers of trying to use Bayh-Dole march-in procedures to control drug prices. And he has a point–the Bayh-Dole march-in procedures were not designed to deal with pricing. In fact, the … Continue reading
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Behind the Usual Narrative, Part V
Universities Help to Make the Problem Universities created the federal contracting mess for basic research by insisting that the federal government not concentrate contracting authority in a single agency set up specifically for providing grants under the most liberal patent … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, IPA, Latker, uniform patent policy
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Behind the Usual Narrative, Part IV
The HEW IPA Program These distinctions become important as the NIH, led by Norman Latker, pushed in 1978 for the adoption of a template IPA agreement on a federal government-wide basis by the Government Services Administration. This effort was rebuffed by … Continue reading
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Why not give Lee Hood an open research tab of $100m?
Brooke Struck has written an interesting comment on Dan Sarewitz’s article “Saving Science.” Struck argues we should balance internal and external pressures to perform research. Here’s my take on it. The first part I posted to SciSP and is indented. … Continue reading
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Behind the Usual Narrative, Part III
Support or Purchase? In American Universities and Federal Research (1959), Charles V. Kidd underscores Bush’s concern that the federal government make a distinction between support and purchase, between subvention and procurement. Kidd cites a memorandum from General Eisenhower to the … Continue reading
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