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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Compulsory IP Taking and Public Universities
Personal ownership of inventions is a matter of federal common law and a personal right to a patent on that invention is established in the US Constitution. The Bill of Rights also provides that the government cannot take property without … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged compensation, compulsory, employment, taking
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The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3d Printing
Inkjet powder 3d printers provide a useful case study for the effects of university exclusive patent licensing. In the early 90s, MIT researchers developed inkjet 3d printers. They built off much of the technology platform used for selective laser sintering … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, History, Innovation, Metrics, Technology Transfer
Tagged 3d printing, powder, Z-Corp
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Shanzhai Rules
Over at the LinkedIn Post-Industrial Design group, there’s a little discussion started by Matt Sinclair on a report called The Future of Open Fabrication from the Institute For the Future. The report calls out the Shanzhai approach to manufacturing in … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Printing, Innovation, IP, Social Science, Technology Transfer
Tagged 3d printing, Future of Fabrication, invention, MIT, patent, shanzhai, Z-Corp
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What SvR Means: Five Key Points
What does Stanford v Roche mean for research enterprise? 1. Federal university research innovation policy favors freedom over compulsory practices. Bayh-Dole rolled back agency compulsory invention ownership policies to create a powerful group of expert, university-based, independent investigators with access … Continue reading
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Rev Proc 2007-47’s Nonsensical Attack on Bayh-Dole
[9/20/18–See this discussion of Rev Proc 2007-47 by the University Industry Demonstration Project–“Public Policy Regarding Industry-Sponsored Research at U.S. Universities.“] Many public universities use tax-free bonds to construct their research buildings, and when they do, they run afoul of the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged 47-2007, Bayh-Dole, private use, qualified user, Tax Reform Act of 1986
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Innovation Fail: autocracy + bureaucracy
I have yet to see a reasoned argument supporting what many university technology transfer officers appear to favor: that the best innovation policy is autocracy + bureaucracy That’s what 70 of ’em argued in their amicus brief in Stanford v. … Continue reading
Posted in Policy, Present Assignment, Technology Transfer
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The Agreement on Top of the Agreement
Karen White, a veteran of technology transfer and research development, has started a blog on innovation and technology transfer called Almost White Papers. In a recent post, she makes a great point: Technology transfer does work when the parties to … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Technology Transfer
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Free Agency
It has been a year and half since Arundeep Pradhan published his “defense” of the AUTM status quo in Business Week. If one looks at the comments to that article, one finds a string of pearls of insiders commending the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Rear View Research
I came across an interesting blog post by Jeff Henning. He provides an account of a talk at the University of Georgia by Stan Sthanuathan, VP of marketing strategy for Coca-Cola. Sthanuathan points out that a lot of industry research … Continue reading
Posted in History, Metrics, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged AUTM, bewilderment, bozonet, consensus, exploration, Ganter, rear view, research
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Trying to make the present assignment problem really simple
I’ve been working through the shift to present assignments. There’s so much bad advice for universities out there. You’d think the attorneys writing their blog posts and newsletter columns could at least make an effort to get it right. The … Continue reading
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