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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Perhaps Arena Rock is the Answer
I have been presenting the issues from a variety of perspectives and lines of reasoning. I’ve argued from history, that faculty-led, voluntary, agent-based invention management has been highly successful. I’ve shown how the voluntary approach formed the basis for a … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole Agent Options and IP Archeology
Here is a brief summary of the flow of control for choice of invention management agent in Bayh-Dole. First Choice: Inventors can choose university Inventors can choose another qualified agent w/university agreement Inventors can choose any agent w/university and w/federal … Continue reading
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"Present licensing" under Bayh-Dole
One of the benefits of reading carefully is discovering how a well constructed text makes sense of complex situations. The implementing regulations for Bayh-Dole are one such text. It is really something to take the mish-mash that is 35 USC … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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The Agent Choice Genius of Bayh-Dole
In the past I’ve tried to outline how Bayh-Dole works. What this means is how the standard patent rights clause in federal funding agreements works. This in turn requires us to get at why the (f)(2) agreement is so essential. … Continue reading
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The Double-Cross
The question has come up: doesn’t a present assignment approach protect faculty from the conniving tricks of companies that will cheat them out of their rightful royalties to inventions? The answer is no. It won’t–not as a condition of employment … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Present Assignment, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
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Faculty employees
Employers own their employees’ work Faculty are employees Therefore universities own the work of faculty Is it that simple? Let’s look at it two ways. First, from the perspective that this reasoning is actually how someone comes to the conclusion … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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And all your student ideas are belong to us, too!
Students who are also employees, students working on a sponsored project, and students who have used University resources (other than for lecture-based coursework) shall also report all inventions and discoveries to the University’s Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, patent policy
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More Bad Science = Tech Transfer Changes
Another summary of “bad science”, this time in bright graphics with emphasis on biomedical and clinical psychology. If 1 in 3 scientists are cooking their results a little longer than they should, should technology transfer offices be a lot more … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Bad Science, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Practical Lessons for University Counsel
Here’s a typical slide deck (it opens in PowerPoint–sorry non-‘Softies) [now deleted–but here is a similar slide deck, posted at the University of Tennessee at about the same time, by Lakita Cavin, a staff attorney, and displaying similar problems] talking … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, lessons, Stanford v Roche
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On the Central Control of Research Innovation
Global University Venturing has published an essay that explores yet another aspect of the present assignment situation, exploring the effect of institutional claims on the dynamics of innovation. In the essay I try to put in the context the arguments … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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