Category Archives: Stanford v Roche

Bozocratic Dumbthink Alert

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

DLA Piper sent me an “alert” email with the heading “A Victory for Roche in a Case over Inventors’ Rights.” It includes this advice: The decision re-emphasizes the importance of university employers to require all employees and consultants to execute … Continue reading →

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Born to Waxen Wood

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Vivek Wadhwa’s column at The Washington Post gets at the issues nicely.  This is a golden opportunity, he writes, to rethink the university approach to research commercialization. Bayh-Dole is good law.  But the university implementation of it is not good … Continue reading →

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What we learn from Stanford v. Roche

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

There are some valuable insights, but first the obvious.  Short form, big picture. 1.  Bayh-Dole is no vesting statute. 2.  Inventors own their inventions made with federal support. 3.  University administrators don’t understand Bayh-Dole or innovation. 4.  AUTM is an … Continue reading →

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Bad Advice for Bureaucrats

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

There is advice out and around that the lesson of Stanford v. Roche is to always use “hereby assigns” rather than “agrees to assign” in employment contracts dealing with patent rights. For universities, it’s not good advice. First, it misses … Continue reading →

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