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Category Archives: Technology Transfer
The AEA, Bayh-Dole, and Government Patent Claims
It has been pointed out that I should take a look at the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. The AEA is an interesting read. Bayh-Dole is at pains to carve out DOE/atomic-nuclear energy provisions, but expressly takes precedence over AEA … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole and Diversity
In discussions of diversity of practice, I encounter an urge to compare programs to obtain metrics of performance. In Canada, a number of universities have inventor-own policies. University of Waterloo, for instance. The immediate gesture is to ask whether Waterloo … Continue reading
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Ownership Politics
I have been working through how Bayh-Dole operates to distribute patent rights arising in federally funded university and non-profit research. How things work aren’t so entirely obvious, but I’m finding folks have some deeply held beliefs about it. Things can … Continue reading
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Pursuing A-110
OMB Circular A-110 sets the overall federal policy for the funding of university research. Within A-110, Bayh-Dole appears as a section within __.36, which pertains to Intangible Property. Other sections of __.36 address copyright and data. There are other federal … Continue reading
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Bureaukleptosis Assessment Tool
Does your university have bureaukleptosis of the IP? Sounds like an ugly malady, to be sure, and it is. At its root, it is an abrogation of the university’s role as trustee of IP in favor of an ownership claim … Continue reading
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Bureaukleptic Innovation Management
I’m giving some thought to “bureaukleptic” innovation management. That’s my word for it. Essentially, this consists in claiming everything one can, and then releasing what one doesn’t want. This approach is favored by folks who don’t have any idea what … Continue reading
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Research Chattels
I’ve been working recently on “research chattels”. These are things created in the course of research that are tangible in some way, and so not real property, but also are not simply the intellectual property. I’ve done some work developing … Continue reading
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Innovation or Invention?
Most universities do not consider a general approach to innovation, or as I would put it, deployment of research-involved new capability (DRINC). The patent-and-license piece is just that, a piece. It’s good to focus on how that particular action comes … Continue reading
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Bozonets and Innovation Practice
Maybe you already see where consideration of bozonets leads for university research asset management. Let’s take the draft bozonet framework and consider what may have happened with Bayh-Dole and university technology transfer. Pre-BD, only a few universities operated “technology transfer” … Continue reading
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Bozonet: A draft
Why is innovation in innovation management so difficult? One explanation that has been developing in my mind involves what I call the “bozonet.” A bozonet is a largely inexpert social network incapable of distinguishing expertise from non-expertise. A bozonet is … Continue reading
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