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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Putting the Groove Back
University tech transfer folks got Bayh-Dole wrong, repeated it so often that it started to sound right, were told by the Supreme Court they were wrong, and now are trying to implement privately what sounded good to them–compulsory university ownership … Continue reading
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Undoing the Work of the Grifters
When you clear away the BS, you may as easily get mystery as clarity. For innovation management, mystery is acceptable. I’ve been trying to get at what is going on with the present assignment push in universities. It appears to … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
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Vistas of Potential and Speculative University Inventions
Today’s Wall Street Journal has a cover story on reproducing the results of medical research. It’s behind a subscription pay wall on-line. (fwiw, I used some of my expiring frequent flyer miles to subscribe to keep my subscription active). “This … Continue reading
Apply This 1% Solution to the Affected Areas…
UCSF has produced a short PowerPoint presentation [since removed] that lays out their rationale for changing their policy from a “promise to assign” to a “present assignment.” You can flip through the slides in a few seconds. Standard story. Stanford … Continue reading
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Shrewdly administered business enterprises
The article I discussed in the previous post makes a pitch for federal policy to make revenue generation an objective of Bayh-Dole, and then worries that pitch. Where the article is spot on is the need for accountability. The authors … Continue reading
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Recombinant Bayh-Dole
Here’s an opening to an article on the Axel patents at Columbia (my emphasis). The Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 gave federally funded grantees and contractors, including universities, a clear and uniform mandate to patent and license inventions stemming from federally … Continue reading
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Thoughts on the role of sale in licensing
I am working through some more history of academic inventions and their subsequent deployment. This article provides a useful perspective on the Cohen-Boyer gene splicing patents. The article points out the role of the Stanford OTL in making companies aware … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Technology Transfer
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CU’s a-Mazing IP Policy
In the University of Colorado’s IP policy we have a simple gesture that turns into a definitional and drafting maze. The simple gesture is, “In an effort to make money licensing patent rights, the university requires the assignment of patentable … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Evaluating university claims of invention ownership
I am working through this idea that an invention is owned by a university merely as the result of work within the scope of employment or through the use of university facilities (and resources and funding and whatever–class 3 unknown). … Continue reading
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All your works are belong to USC
Here’s one for you, from the University of Southern California Intellectual Property Policy. See if you can figure out what’s wrong untrue with this statement: Both California and federal law provide that the University owns all intellectual property created or … Continue reading
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