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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
The Poetry of Aspirational IP Systems
In 2015, Ann Hammersla, once a senior university licensing officer and now working for the NIH, gave a talk at an NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration–“Inventions, Data Sharing, Reports to NIH, and other Intellectual Property Considerations.” … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Technology Transfer
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Key Concepts 1: Dual Monopoly
Dual Monopoly A dual monopoly approach to innovation management involves both a comprehensive institutional demand for ownership of inventive work and an institutional determination to convey monopolies in that work for private exploitation. The first monopoly is an institutional one. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged dual monopoly, metrics, portfolio model
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UW startups for FY2013 four years later, 2
Part 1 of this article is here. Now let’s look at ID Genomics, the one company that was actually correctly reported by UW as a FY2013 startup. As of June 2017, IDGenomics is still in operation, reporting 10 employees. According … Continue reading
Posted in History, Technology Transfer
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Vice presidents for research beg for Directive 10-289.
Here’s a bit from the APLU/AAU fakographic on university technology transfer: And here’s a bit from “‘Miracle machine of U.S. innovation is in danger,” a new op/ed by Kelvin Droegemeier and Daniel Reed. Droegemeier is the vice president for research at … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Metrics, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
Tagged basic research, Directive 289, Iowa, Oklahoma
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The banal myth of the necessary institutional monopoly
Louis Rosenfeld wrote an insightful article in Clinical Chemistry on the discovery of insulin “Insulin: Discovery and Controversy.” Three collaborators in the research had a disagreement over inventive contributions to various portions of the work and to settle their disputes gave … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
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Bayh-Dole nonsense in a talk at the University of Pittsburgh
Last year (March 2016), Joe Allen gave a talk at the University of Pittsburgh, “Patent Ownership Under Bayh-Dole, reported in the University Times. Called “a key architect of the Bayh-Dole Act,” Allen manages to fill a talk summary with mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
Tagged (f)(2), 401.14, Allen, Bayh-Dole, Harbridge House, Pittsburg, SPRC, Stanford v Roche
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The Special Special Case
Of all the university research findings possible, inventions–because of patents–attract the attention. Everything else about research–data, findings, experimental setups, reports, how to do things–is pretty much ignored. No one spent time worrying about whether data or findings would be “made … Continue reading
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There are no Bayh-Doles in Canada
In a recent hearing held by the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, made some valuable remarks, which he has published at his blog. Geist … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Innovation, Technology Transfer
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The Bush Engine of Technology Innovation
Vannevar Bush argued that it was a proper role for the federal government to support scientific research. This proposition today is regarded as a truth that hardly needs justification. But in Science the Endless Frontier, Bush was not arguing for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy, Social Science, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged BETI, free play of free intellects, Vannevar Bush
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DIY Plus: inventions, claims, and technology transfer
I will start with a mostly unreadable diagram: This is the rhetorical anatomy of the relationship between an invention and a patent, or a “claimed invention.” It is important to see the difference because people tend to talk about inventions … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Technology Transfer
Tagged claimed invention, DIY Plus, equivalents, invention, patent, variations
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