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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
In Defense of Inventor Liberty
University patent administrators are proposing a distorted reading of federal regulations in an effort to ensure that you never own your own inventions, even when you make them on your own time, outside of the use of university facilities. They think it makes … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving
With this holiday in America being a time for giving thanks after the harvest and for the establishment of a constitutional government devoted to safety and happiness, making it a truly economic celebration built on a recognition of the good … Continue reading
Posted in History, Social Science, Technology Transfer
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The Bitter Irony of Vesting
As you might have noticed if you have followed the development of my discussions on this blog, I have spent much time working through Bayh-Dole, often in association with the Stanford v. Roche case. As I’ve pointed out, I am … Continue reading
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For every scenario, other scenarios
AUTM imagines faculty researchers messing around with patent obligations and creating a situation where no one has undivided ownership of a research invention. To AUTM, this is horrifying. How can one make money exclusively licensing to monopolists to make a … Continue reading
Posted in Agreements, IP, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
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A Patent License in the DFARS
With all the talk about template patent licenses these days, I thought it might be worth pointing out that in the DFARS there is a template patent license that the Government expects when obtaining patent rights. You can find it … Continue reading
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Minimum Policy, Phase 2
[This is a pre-Stanford v Roche discussion. I have updated it for current CFR references. A contractor does not “elect title”–a contractor may “elect to retain title” that the contractor has obtained by conventional means. A contractor’s option under a … Continue reading
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Your transfer to the unknown has come through
You know, the money sweet spot for invention commercialization is to take acute conditions and make them chronic. That’s like a drug to treat the pain rather than an intervention that cures the condition causing the pain, or providing protection … Continue reading
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We have questions
When we interpret Bayh-Dole as a social text, we get beyond the immediate claims and into a territory that tests our competence. Continue reading
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What Remains to Be Seen
I want to return to a paragraph from a previous post and go another direction with it: While the standard patents rights clause is indeed standard, the only two things about it that are standard are that it applies in … Continue reading
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Artifact, Invention, Technology, Change
University research technology often takes the form of artifacts. Often the academic discussion is about the merit of research objectives in terms of demonstrating, proving out, or advancing a concept or theory or argument. The “technology” that results is treated … Continue reading
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