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Five Steps to Restoring an Effective University IP Practice, Steps 1 and 2

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

Over the past couple of years, I have been involved in projects based in the idea of commons for the exchange of research and diagnostic assets. These projects have been blocked or resisted at each point by organizational technology transfer … Continue reading →

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Compulsory IP Taking and Public Universities

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

Personal ownership of inventions is a matter of federal common law and a personal right to a patent on that invention is established in the US Constitution. The Bill of Rights also provides that the government cannot take property without … Continue reading →

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Collectivist and individualist innovation

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

I have been reading Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. It’s a series of essays critiquing the economics of a planned society, arguing instead in favor of markets and individual choices. Hayek argues that the ideals that give rise to … Continue reading →

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