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Reflections on Shill Reflections on Bayh-Dole, 5: Incentives and basic research
We have been working through a set of reflections on Bayh-Dole by a set of patents-in-healthcare shills. We are at this claim: prior to the Act, the government often funded research to spark innovation, but then put the research in … Continue reading
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Tagged basic resaerch, incentive, research, selectivity
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A major law firm’s new FAQ on Bayh-Dole, 3: Mindless Administrative Compliance
We are working through a FAQ on Bayh-Dole that doesn’t hesitate to delight and entertain with compliance porn. Remember, the FAQ started out with the claim that Bayh-Dole was intended to “provide incentives to promote commercialization”–which isn’t rightly defensible (there’s … Continue reading
Patents in Space-1
The Nation, an English-language Pakistani newspaper, published an article on March 11 by Famiya Masood, “Patents in Pakistan” that argues the government must create incentives for university inventors. That much is interesting. But Masood builds her argument using Bayh-Dole as … Continue reading
Typical Bayh-Dole wrongness in the wild
Here’s a 2017 article on Bayh-Dole, “Bullies and Beakers: How Large Universities are Squashing Research Competition and the Contractual Remedies to Solve It,” by Jonathan Fort, then a law student, published in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, incentive, Yale v Fenn
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Bayh-Dole Up Your Counsel, 2
This is UpCounsel’s 11 minute Q & A on the Bayh-Dole Act. We are working through it, Mystery Science Fiction Theatre 3000 style. Are you Joel? Am I Tom Servo? And who is the mad Dr. Forrester who keeps making … Continue reading
Illusions of Bayh-Dole: patent blockages and incentives
In 1979, when S. 414 was introduced by Senators Bayh and Dole–later much of the language of S. 414 would form the core of the Bayh-Dole Act–Senator Bayh made the following claim: Some 30,000 government-owned patents are piled up awaiting … Continue reading