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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
The University Dual Monopoly Patent Policy Goes to 11
The current approach to university IP management implemented throughout the United State involves a broad definition of what constitutes an “invention” or “intellectual property” a broad scope for who is required to comply with the policy a policy demand of … Continue reading
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The Vampire at the Neck
Consider the three elements of the simple mantra I outlined in my last post. Take IP License IP Make Money Let’s work through these three imperatives. Take IP Administrators have expanded the definition of “IP” from patents and copyrights to … Continue reading
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Disconfirmation makes it stronger
Last night I dreamed I was engaged in a debate. It was for a call-in radio show. Oddly, we were on one of those huge chartered buses. The bus was filled with university technology licensing managers. Dunno where we were … Continue reading
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University monopoly-monopoly IP practices create betting parlors
Examination of a university intellectual property policy apparatus, such as that of the University of Michigan, is instructive. Rarely does one get the chance to do a close reading of such documents outside of a dispute, and if there’s a dispute, … Continue reading
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Five Motivators of University Patent Policy Madness
University patent policies are not what they seem, and are shaped by the exploitation of ideas that have nothing to do with inventiveness, creativity, entrepreneurship, public use, commercial development, investment, economic vitality, public welfare, or even university mission. All these … Continue reading
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Tagged authority, compliance, conflict of interest, liability, money, non-compete, policy, trade secret, university
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Bayh-Dole, the bureaucratic solution to massive federal funding of faculty research
Prior to 1912, university faculty generally did not seek patents. Cottrell at the University of California created Research Corporation to act as an external agent to present his and other faculty members’ inventions to industry. The Board of Research Corporation … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Cottrell, MEST, NSF, Research Corporation, research foundations, Vannevar Bush
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How university exclusive patent licensing suppresses commercialization pathways
A number of university licensing officers have made a big deal about exclusive patent licenses. The exclusive license, they argue, is the key advantage they have over the federal government’s typical approach to invention management. The purpose of the Bayh-Dole … Continue reading
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University monopoly IP practices kill the very thing they claim to seek
Although the Bayh-Dole Act is placed in US patent law, it actually makes few changes to patent law, as the US Supreme Court made clear in the Stanford v. Roche decision. Bayh-Dole largely forces federal agencies to adopt a uniform … Continue reading
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The VPR Letters, No. 3
Dear Vice Provost for Research, I said I’d write again and explain how your technology transfer office is still hugely important. If you remember, in my first letter I discussed how the prevailing approach to university research innovation has failed, … Continue reading
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The VPR Letters, No. 2
Dear Vice Provost for Research, In my last letter I pointed out how the aggregate-patent-license model for university technology transfer has failed. It is a seductive model. It sounds so reasonable, so clear. And yet it has failed to deliver. … Continue reading
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