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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
Punishment: Write on the Board Many Times
Bayh-Dole is not automagical. Bayh-Dole does not strip university inventors of their patent rights. Bayh-Dole does not require or force or assume university ownership of patents. Bayh-Dole does not make it impossible for university bureaucrats to mess up. Bayh-Dole does … Continue reading
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Bad Advice for Bureaucrats
There is advice out and around that the lesson of Stanford v. Roche is to always use “hereby assigns” rather than “agrees to assign” in employment contracts dealing with patent rights. For universities, it’s not good advice. First, it misses … Continue reading
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Hmpf Vol 1, appendix
The paper argues that Bayh-Dole represents a societal statement encouraging universities to work closely with industry despite cultural differences and the prospect for conflict of interest, and that with thoughtfulness these challenges can be met so that federally supported inventions … Continue reading
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More Intermittency Shining in Management Darkness
There is a simple IP policy no university will implement: It is our policy to take no position on any IP arising in the university unless the university commissions its creation or the proprietors of the IP request our involvement. … Continue reading
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Minor Warlords Selling Krill
A friend sent me a link to this article by Steve Blank that shows how venture backed start ups have moved from IPO to acquisition as the primary exit. If the primary purpose of starting a company is selling it … Continue reading
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Intermittency
In The Survival Game, David Barash discusses the prisoner’s dilemma as a instance of where the payoff for defecting on collaborators is better than playing nice. When such situations repeat, there are huge problems for collaborators in responding to attempts … Continue reading
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Bad Dog
Patent law is all social convention anyway. It is something we make up. We then task courts with enforcing our made up stuff as laws. Practices and habits build up. People and people in companies get used to the habits, … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole at Large
Bayh-Dole 1) normalizes government agency approaches to claims on inventions made in government funded research; 2) places research institutions in a voluntary position to direct the disposition of claims on invention ahead of government agencies, provided the research institutions use … Continue reading
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Making it Clear
Here’s the sequence of actions that complies with Bayh-Dole when a university desires ownership of a federally supported invention. 1) obtain a disclosure of invention 2) report this invention to the government 3) elect to retain title in the invention … Continue reading
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DIWO
Check out biocurious.org for an interesting take on the “do it with others” (DIWO) effort to extend co-working to scientific research. Here’s the good comment on paper credentials. “The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.” In a … Continue reading
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