Category Archives: Technology Transfer

University IP programs with stewardship elements

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

Some university programs do have administrators that are looking at stewardship rather than ownership.  For instance, UC Berkeley and the University of Oregon.   The University of Waterloo works with a voluntary IP program.   If you know of others that … Continue reading →

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IP policy architectures, simpler than possible

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

One of the challenges of dealing with university technology transfer is that many of the descriptions of what is to be accomplished are cast in the singular, without context.  Policies are then built around these singularities, and anything multiple is … Continue reading →

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Mapping Invention Portfolio Expectations

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

What is the shape of the unknown?  One might think, well, if it’s unknown, then how can we know?  And yet we work with the unknown all the time.  In this series of essays, a lot of my work has … Continue reading →

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Regulation Is Not a Plan

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

A recent interview (only one free article a month) at The American Interest with Peter Thiel caught my eye.  The interview takes up the idea that there has been a stagnation of innovation since the 1960s, other than in IT and … Continue reading →

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The University D-Economy, Fitt 5

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

I have been looking at various statements regarding the “D-economy.” It goes by various names–Shanzhai rules, débrouillards, System-D. The Wired write up was interesting. Here is another, from Coley Hudgins at Resilient Family. Here’s another by Robert Neuwirth (who was … Continue reading →

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Patent battles and research fragmentation

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

John Dvorak over at PC Magazine has an interesting comment on the patent battles shaping up in mobile.  His more general observation, however, is what  caught my eye: This whole idea of actual inventions and the monopoly is over. Around … Continue reading →

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Projects, the Treatment for Fool's Dream Virus

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

The gulf between the Supreme Court decision in Stanford v Roche and the push in universities for present assignments is huge.   The Court decided the question whether Bayh-Dole was a vesting statute.  It said no. Wasn’t.  By doing that, … Continue reading →

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Present Assignment Agreements, the Coming Nightmare for University IP Practice

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

This turned out to be a longish essay for a blog environment. It’s not for everyone. It puts together arguments against the idea that present assignments somehow address the Stanford v Roche situation, or situations like it, or are otherwise … Continue reading →

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Stevenson-Wydler Technology Transfer Reporting

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

I have written before about technology transfer standards (here and here, for instance), and how the AUTM licensing survey in particular fails to provide useful management information, and in some ways is quite misleading with regard to what is going … Continue reading →

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Why an Innovation Bill of Rights, and not Better Bureaukleptic University Policy?

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Gerald Barnett

I’m looking at a new article on Stanford v Roche that ends with the assurance that universities can use present assignments and doing so will “fix” their ownership problem.  Before getting into the article, I want to emphasize that this … Continue reading →

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