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The better way is no way: background rights, royalty stacking, and double licensing arising from university IP claims
Let’s start blunt. Then extended discussion. Snark as needed. Current university IP policies create a background rights problem that drives away collaborators, makes university-based inventions irrelevant, and makes university dealings with IP default to unreliable. One of the dark problems … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Patents
Tagged background rights, complications, double licensing, royalty stacking, stupid
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Contractor Background Rights and March-in
Bayh-Dole’s march-in provisions (35 USC 203) are worthless. They were designed to be worthless, except for creating a show of public oversight and intervention that allowed Bayh-Dole to get through Congress and be signed into law. Bremer bragged about how … Continue reading
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Tagged background rights, Bayh-Dole, march-in, subject invention
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