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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Present Assignment ADD at UC
The University of California has present assignment language in its “Patent Acknowledgment“: I acknowledge my obligation to assign, and do hereby assign, inventions and patents that I conceive or develop within the course and scope of my University employment while … Continue reading
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Drafting the Unknown
As I’m reading through university IP policies, I’ve begun to notice how those drafting the policies are grappling with the unknown. There are a number of unknowns–many policies don’t evidence that the drafters know IP, and others work hard to … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, Bozonet, IP, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged bozonet, Eriugena, policy, unknown
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Fixin' for Some Bayh-Dole Fixing
Here’s more in the wild on vesting interpretations of Stanford v. Roche. Written by a suit of attorneys at the firm of Bracewell & Guiliani, it gets a piece of the Supreme Court decision right, does a decent job summarizing … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Innovation, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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The Party Boat
Here’s a bit from the Rice University Invention and Patent Policy: In the case of Government-supported research, the Bayh-Dole Act and subsequent amendments and federal regulations provide the basis for current University technology transfer practices. Accordingly, while the University is … Continue reading
MIT's Patent Policy Problem
During the kerfluffle known as Stanford v Roche, one of the big advocates for Bayh-Dole as a vesting statute was MIT. The MIT amicus brief is here. It’s in this amicus brief that the idea that a present assignment trumping … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Policy, Sponsored Research, Stanford v Roche, Technology Transfer
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The "Patent Problem" in 1948
I’ve been looking at university patent policies lately and came across this discussion of university patent policies by Archie Palmer from 1948, produced by the National Research Counsel and available through Google Books. The discussion is notable for the clarity … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Policy, Technology Transfer
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The CHARM Act of 2012
We’ve had some long posts lately. It’s been necessary. And there will be more, to show just how thoroughly technology transfer programs have run amok, how there are viable and attractive alternatives, that there are folks ready to develop these … Continue reading
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Institutional IP Baksheesh
Here is perhaps the worst conceived and written paragraph in University of Washington policy history. Seven sentences without the hope of connecting their subject and verbs into a coherent expression. Read, enjoy. I’ll work through the finer points in a … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, IP, Policy, Technology Transfer
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Time to Reboot the Franchise
I have been working through University of Washington policy on inventions. One of the interesting–and dismaying–aspects of the Washington policy is its use of conflict of interest policies to route intellectual property ownership to the control of administrators. I know, … Continue reading
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How the Disease Spread
A theme of this blog recently has been the transformation of faculty work from that of independent scholars working collectively to form a university to that of indentured labor working for management that controls the university. This is particularly true … Continue reading
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