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28,000 federal patents and the monopoly meme went into a bar, 3

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Howard Forman, a long-time patent attorney in the chemical industry turned federal employee, introduced the 28,000 unused federal patents meme into Bayh-Dole rhetoric in his congressional testimony in 1976. Senator Bayh includes Forman’s meme in his introduction of S. 414, … Continue reading →

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28,000 federal patents and the monopoly meme went into a bar, 2

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Howard Forman’s 1976 testimony is where the 28,000 patents meme enters what will become the Bayh-Dole rhetoric. Senator Bayh uses Forman’s meme when he introduces S. 414 in 1979: When the Government decides to retain patent rights on these inventions … Continue reading →

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28,000 federal patents and the monopoly meme went into a bar, 1

Posted on October 31, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Here’s an important–perhaps the pivotal–instance of the monopoly meme in the history of what will become the Bayh-Dole Act. Synopsis. Howard Forman introduces the meme of 28,000 unused federal patents in his legislative testimony in 1976. Senator Bayh repeats the … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole the Giant Turd

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Howard Forman, a patent attorney, introduced the claim that the federal government had 26,000 unused patents in his testimony before a House subcommittee in 1976, and that the reason for the nonuse was that the government made the inventions available … Continue reading →

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Five easy ways to circumvent Bayh-Dole’s “manufactured substantially” requirement

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Bayh-Dole makes American manufacture of product based on subject inventions the centerpiece of the law. Bayh-Dole’s statement of policy and objective calls out promotion of inventions “made in the United States by United States industry and labor” (35 USC 200). … Continue reading →

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NSF’s circumvention of Bayh-Dole in cooperative research centers

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Bayh-Dole positions the “preference” for United States industry as the most important provision of the law, asserting precedence over any other part of Bayh-Dole (see 35 USC 203). Bayh-Dole requires owners of subject inventions to require certain exclusive licensees to … Continue reading →

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What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 3

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

Now we arrive at the source of the NIH’s conflation in its most recent “background” misrepresentation of Bayh-Dole. We are deep into the federally owned invention side of Bayh-Dole, section 209(a), in a list of the requirements that must be … Continue reading →

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What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 2

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through the NIH’s most recent misrepresentation of the Bayh-Dole Act. In the first part of this effort, we looked at the NIH’s bungling of the basic premise of Bayh-Dole and the concept of practical application. Bayh-Dole’s first … Continue reading →

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What about inventions made on equipment purchased with federal funds?

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

How does the Bayh-Dole Act apply to inventions made using equipment purchased with federal funding? Here’s the thing–Bayh-Dole applies to inventions owned by a contractor–a party to a federal funding agreement for research or development. If the inventor is not … Continue reading →

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What the NIH says about Bayh-Dole, 1

Posted on October 22, 2018 by Gerald Barnett

The NIH has published comments on the NIST changes to the regulations that implement the Bayh-Dole Act and the standard patent rights clause. Jamie Love at Knowledge Ecology International calls out in a tweet a passage in the “Background” section in … Continue reading →

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