Category Archives: Technology Transfer

Baird Asks a Key Question

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Brian Baird (Washington 3d District) made some important contributions to the House Science and Technology subcommittee hearings last Thursday. His challenge for university research is that bright people too often end up doing meaningless things. Baird asks, “Isn’t there a … Continue reading →

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How Many Holes It Takes

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

If you read a bunch of university IP policies, you start to realize that they are fixated on the duties to implement a monopoly licensing model that is rarely articulated, and on dividing the spoils that are presumed to come … Continue reading →

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University Brand "Commercialization"

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Some university technology administrators are adopting the idea that the crowning outcome of public research is commercial money-making. This idea is wrapped around a shift in vocabulary from “technology transfer” to “technology licensing” to “commercialization.” These are very different concepts. … Continue reading →

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Social Media in Tech Transfer

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

I don’t quite know how to write this. Piscopo version at the end. The key thing about social media is that it is social. That’s more than advertising and self-promotion, though both are of course in their own way part … Continue reading →

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Bah! Dolts!

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

It appears that AUTM and others are gearing up for a big push to change Bayh-Dole. They hope to get the Supreme Court to take a look at Stanford v. Roche and are ginning up a new amicus brief to … Continue reading →

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Bills of Rights and Geneva Conventions

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Inventors are in the thick of creativity and discovery and bureaucrats are not. Yet we find some AUTM folks these days arguing fervently for a stronger affinity with bureaucrats than with inventors. They do this even when successful inventors show … Continue reading →

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Lab Budgets

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

A post over on Techno-L caught my eye. It asked if anyone had dealt with cost recovery for business and lab costs in dealing with licensing income. A number of responses lay out the party line on what patent licensing … Continue reading →

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The Value of TLOs

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

The TLO (technology licensing office) is a bug in the grass of innovation. There’s so much more involved than holding patents on research inventions for money. However, bugs have their place in innovation, provided they are the right kind of … Continue reading →

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Feeling in the "No" Mood

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

I’m feeling in the “no” today. Here are some questions and various reasons why not. Should TLOs have first right to “commercialize”? No. Commercialization should not be the first activity for research outcomes. No. The first right should be offered, … Continue reading →

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Software and Data in Policy-Making Research

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

I have been following the “Climategate” situation involving the release of email and software from the University of East Anglia. Apart from what appears to be scientific fraud on the part of a number of scientists, I’m considering what this … Continue reading →

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