Category Archives: Technology Transfer

Best practices in university invention management, 2

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through an article in the ipHandbook that argues for “best practices” in university ownership of inventions.  The article spends little time discussing how faculty are employed in their research work, nor the other requirements of university policy … Continue reading →

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Best practices in university invention management, 1

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Things get complicated that don’t have to be complicated when it comes to university ownership of inventions. Administrators make things complicated, then argue for lots of money to pay for the talent to navigate those complications, and then more money … Continue reading →

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Unleashing American Innovation

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

NIST convened a symposium in April 2018 titled “Unleashing American Innovation”: On April 19, 2018, thought leaders from across government, industry and academia gathered in Washington, D.C., to discuss how we can work together to address systemic barriers to catalyze the … Continue reading →

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The Basic Policy Question Behind Bayh-Dole

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

There’s one simple issue: Should the federal government subsidize with public funding for nonprofit research the creation of patent monopolies? There it is. The answer that has dominated for thirty-five years is “Yes.” How comfortable are you with that? Gut-level? … Continue reading →

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Institutional patent derangement syndrome

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

The discussion of university ownership of patents on inventions made in faculty-led research invariably adopts the singular. Consider one invention at one university. Now, doesn’t it make sense that university administrators should take over that invention for the good of … Continue reading →

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Some reading for technology transfer professionals

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Every so often I have asked people what articles ought to be required reading for people in university technology transfer. One great suggestion is David Teece’s “Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy.” Another has … Continue reading →

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The bozonet on mount stupid

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

I mentioned “mount stupid” last week in a three-part article on the University of Utah. Mount stupid is a bit of a meme derived from accounts of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which I have referred to in developing an account of … Continue reading →

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Whistling all the way to the bank, revisited 3

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Having established the contracting problem for government-sponsored “basic research,” let’s get into how the patent administration folks got into changing things around from government ownership (with its open access, often without conditions or formalities) to institutional ownership (or, more accurately, … Continue reading →

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Available to one, developed by none, 1

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

A repeated argument regarding inventions made with federal support was that the public would benefit from these inventions only if companies invested substantial amounts of private capital in developing the inventions as commercial products. Without commercial development at private expense, … Continue reading →

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More Contempt of the Supreme Court at the NIH

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Here is more misrepresentation of Bayh-Dole from the NIH, the creator of Bayh-Dole, purporting to be advice for inventors: Under the Bayh-Dole Act, your institution as the grant recipient owns rights to the NIH-funded invention and has the right and obligation … Continue reading →

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