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Bayh-Dole support for inventors and free competition

I made this a twitter thread. I’ll post it here as well and work to round it out as I have time. It’s the flip side of being blunt about what happens under Bayh-Dole if an inventor does not assign … Continue reading

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Being blunt about Bayh-Dole operations

Let’s be blunt. If you are a federal contractor and you don’t take/accept ownership of an invention arising in federally supported research or development, you have no Bayh-Dole obligations with regard to that invention. You do not have to get … Continue reading

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The rule of law

Let’s look at Bayh-Dole and subject inventions from another angle. Same material as in our last article, developed a bit differently. Nothing in federal patent law requires an inventor to use the patent system. Nothing in federal patent law vests … Continue reading

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The (f)(2) agreement that your university must require you to sign

[Updated for the 2018 NIST regulatory revisions.] If you are working on a grant at a university, and the grant is from the US Government, and your university has accepted a standard patent rights clause in the form of 37 … Continue reading

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