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What has Bayh-Dole changed?
There’s a persistent claim made that Bayh-Dole somehow changed university technology transfer–started it, revolutionized it, and/or made it successful where it wasn’t before. Something pretty darned big, anyway. But nowhere in Bayh-Dole is there any hint that nonprofit technology transfer … Continue reading
How Bayh-Dole Is Intended to Work, circa 1992, Part 2
We are working through a paragraph from a law review article from 1992, taken perhaps out of context, but setting out how Bayh-Dole was “intended” to work. Our problem is not so much with the law professor who wrote the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet
Tagged 15 USC 2218(d), Bayh-Dole, blackbirds, fantasy, intention
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Fantasy depictions of technology transfer
People play innovation policy with stick drawings. Inventions are depicted as proto-products rather than as broad swaths of potential. According to the stick drawings, patents “protect” inventions from competing uses that would simultaneously discourage private investment in “developing” the inventions … Continue reading
Posted in Technology Transfer
Tagged diagrams, fantasy, process, technology transfer
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Undisclosed subject inventions made in development and commercialization contracts
A note on subject inventions not disclosed under Bayh-Dole–and a place for auditors to romp and play as auditors are wont to do, if auditors were ever to romp and play with regard to anything consequential in Bayh-Dole. What follows … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, fantasy, funding agreement, subject invention
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The NIH’s View of Bayh-Dole Compliance, 6
Research Enterprise has been examining the NIH’s representation of Bayh-Dole. So far we have seen that the NIH persists in citing a 1995 document that gives “guidance” that the Supreme Court in Stanford v Roche (2011) rejected. But the NIH … Continue reading
University of California’s Office of the President self-servingly misrepresents Bayh-Dole
[TL;DR UC gets Bayh-Dole wrong, ignores the Stanford v Roche decision, makes it appear that UC has a right to take title to inventions, when it doesn’t. UC denies inventors their rights to invention under the color of law, a … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Present Assignment
Tagged Bayh-Dole, disclosure, fantasy, University of California
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