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Helge Holst’s 1963 Argument for Institutional Control of Government Inventions
In 1963, Helge Holst, an attorney for Arthur D. Little and member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s National Defense Committee, published a report titled “Government Patent Policy: Its Impact on Contractor Cooperation with the Government and Widespread Use of … Continue reading
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Tagged bigly things, Holst, imagined world, invention, nonsense
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The National Patent Planning Commission argument for government-created private patent monopolies, 3
The National Patent Planning Commission quotes administration officials repeating this same argument. Here’s the Under Secretary of Agriculture (1941): The commercial exploitation of new inventions requires, in many cases, the expenditure of large sums of money. In such a case, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy
Tagged invention, National Patent Planning Commission, patent, pharma, Vannevar Bush
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Thinking about projects, small and big–6
We have looked at projects. Small projects can be pieces of bigger projects. It’s the big project that controls. Now let’s look at inventions, small and greater. We will see roughly the same thing: the idea of “invention” can be … Continue reading
University of Misery’s IP Policy Scam, 11
The introduction of a goofball definition of “invention” into the University of Missouri’s patent policy has a real effect: it transforms the scope of the policy text–especially at D.1 (inventions claimed by the university) and at D.2 (inventions that must … Continue reading
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Tagged contributor, invention, Missouri, submit
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Bayh-Dole the Monster
The Bayh-Dole Act makes a great deal about public interest. Throughout the law are gestures toward worthy objectives–use of inventions, manufacturing in the United States, government licenses, and the right of federal agencies to step if they need to. But … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Stanford v Roche
Tagged Bayh-Dole, invention, monster, NIH, patent, Stanford v Roche
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The Key Provisions of Bayh-Dole
Now, with all that fusstation from the University of Pittsburgh out of the way, we might ask then what are the “key provisions” of Bayh-Dole that a university should make faculty and the public aware of. Only One Key Provision … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, compliance, contractor, invention, inventor, patent, patent rights clause
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That special special case 4: Making it general
The special special case was turned into a general case, the only case, the best practice case. According to this new general case, inventions generally require private risk capital to become useful. Institutions must take on the responsibility to find … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Policy
Tagged invention, necessary incentive
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 14
The start is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Three sorts of university invention We can then distinguish three sorts of invention arising in federally funded research at universities: inventive tools, inventive tools that can be sold … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 12
This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 How history informs the present Why spend all this time on a lost university policy from 1969 in response to a canceled IPA program? After all, we have … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 2
This article starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 In the new 1969 Wisconsin patent policy, we encounter a corporate agent and the passive voice: “it has become necessary for the University to scrutinize with care the … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged disclosure, institutional patent agreement, invention, IPA, Kennedy, WARF, Wisconsin
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