Category Archives: Technology Transfer

10 Ways Universities Deal in Patents

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

I have been thinking about how university technology transfer is depicted, versus how it actually happens. The depictions are something of a prophetic hope–inventions reported to the university’s licensing office will be evaluated for “commercial potential” and those that look … Continue reading →

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Faculty Strategies for Getting Their IP Back, 2

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

Here are some strategies for getting IP back that don’t work or avoid IP ownership. (1) Don’t disclose an invention to the university, and file for a patent on your own. Your application will be published in a year or … Continue reading →

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Faculty Strategies for Getting Their IP Back

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

If you are a faculty member at an American university, you will get a lot of twisted advice from your university technology transfer office about intellectual property, Bayh-Dole, and patent policy. The advice (and descriptions about technology transfer) is mostly … Continue reading →

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A university technology transfer annotated reading list

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

So you want to tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain. Got it! Here is a basic reading list of documents that frame the history of university technology transfer. I’ve put it in chronological order and provide links to … Continue reading →

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Cornboard, Part 1

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

The Bayh-Dole Coalition, an evidence-free lobbying organization in support of not enforcing Bayh-Dole’s public protections, tweeted today a “success” story: Success Story! @UofIllinois 3 Researchers developed a product known as “CornBoard”, a way to make composite materials from corn to … Continue reading →

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University of Cincinnati’s Top Ten Technologies for 2023

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

The University of Cincinnati has published a list of its “top ten” technologies for 2023. There’s some pretty interesting work on the list, and 5 of the 10 technologies have already found a licensee (exclusive, of course). That’s impressive. But … Continue reading →

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Lessons from The Sound of Innovation: Lesson 1, On the Border

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

In The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution, Andrew J. Nelson recounts how John Chowning and others developed digital music while working in between the cracks of computer science, music, and electrical engineering. Nelson emphasizes this situation … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole is a competition and technology transfer statute

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

The Bayh-Dole Coalition, a lobbying front for pharma and university patent administrators, claims that Bayh-Dole is a “tech transfer statute” that would be misused if federal agencies used its march-in provisions to address drug pricing. If companies cannot price-gouge, they … Continue reading →

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Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 3

Posted on March 12, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through Niels Reimers’s op/ed in the Mercury News, published last April (2021) and now being used by the Bayh-Dole Coalition, a lobbying organization backed by a number of universities and front groups, to try to prevent Bayh-Dole’s … Continue reading →

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Undermining Bayh-Dole by relying on it? 1

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

I feel like Charlie Chaplin in a pie factory. Before I could work through an op/ed by Niels Reimers in the Mercury News last April (2021) that the Bayh-Dole Coalition has dredged up to contest the use of march-in to … Continue reading →

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