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28,000 federal patents and the monopoly meme went into a bar, 1
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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Tagged Bayh-Dole, federal research, Forman, invention, negative suppression, patent, Rickover
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Invention, subject invention, and the clever scheme of Bayh-Dole
Here is the definition of invention in the Kennedy executive branch patent policy, 1963 (Section 4(b)): Invention or Invention or discovery–includes any art, machine, manufacture, design, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, or any variety … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Sponsored Research, Stanford v Roche
Tagged bamboozled, Bayh-Dole, Federal Procurement Regulations, invention, subject invention
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Two Published Accounts of University Licensing: WARF and Stanford
Universities generally keep secret their licensing metrics. Yes, they report the number of inventions, patents, licenses, and startups in a given year–but they don’t report how those numbers relate to one another. The inventions reported in a given year have … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics
Tagged invention, metrics, Stanford, technology transfer, university, WARF
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If state university patent policy is actually state law . . .
Over the course of a number of years, Professor Galen Suppes was involved in litigation with the University of Missouri over rights to inventions. Among other things, the University claimed ownership of inventions that Suppes made at another institution before … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom, IP, Litigation, Policy
Tagged California, invention, Missouri, Shaw, Suppes, university law
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Only Bayh-Dole and University Research Enterprise, 2
We have worked through the claim that Bayh-Dole created a “uniform” federal policy with regard to inventions made in federally supported research or development. Bayh-Dole creates an arbitrary default for federal policy that applies only when a contractor acquires ownership … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History
Tagged Bayh-Dole, collaboration, invention, universities
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The “fix” in Bayh-Dole
People worry at times that there is a “gap” or “flaw” in Bayh-Dole. They see the problem to be that Bayh-Dole doesn’t out and decree that all inventions made with federal support are owned (or to be owned) by the … Continue reading
The AUTM CEO’s Speech, Fitt 4
We are about done with the AUTM CEO’s speech at the NIST symposium on “unleasing American innovation.” Yes, it is trash, so we are trashing it. But there’s a purpose here. It’s not just that there is a difference of … Continue reading
The AUTM CEOs Speech, Fitt 2
We are working through a speech that the CEO of the Association of University Technology Managers gave at a recent symposium sponsored by NIST with the dubious title “Unleashing American Innovation.” Our CEO has made pompous claims about his organization … Continue reading
A law firm opines about a NIST rule, and I opine about the opining
A law firm gives an overview of the new NIST regulations for Bayh-Dole. It leads with fake history. Not a good sign. First enacted in 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act (as amended, the “Act”) for the first time permitted research institutions … Continue reading
Best practices in university invention management, 10
We have reached the last installment of our work with the ipHandbook’s model invention assignment agreement. We started this journey making note of how university patent administrators make things more complicated than they ever need to be. The basic approach … Continue reading