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The Public Research Patent Covenant–Narrative Version
The Institutional Patent Agreement approach to patent rights arising from federally supported research carried with it what we may call a public covenant, a set of conditions that run with each patent on a subject invention that place limits on … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Commons, Policy, Social Science, Technology Transfer, Vannever Bush
Tagged Bayh-Dole, Bremer, IPA, middlemen, public covenant
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The IPA Public Covenant
[revised to add a discussion of Kennedy’s patent policy statement and distinguish it from COGR’s account of it; added an account of the various federal agency approaches to ownership of inventions] Advocates for Bayh-Dole practice odd forms of historical revisionism. … Continue reading
IPA compared with BD and its CFR and SPRC
I have created a table that lays out some of the differences between the 1968 HEW Institutional Patent Agreement template and the Bayh-Dole Act, the implementing regulations at 37 CFR Part 401, and in particular the Standard Patent Rights Clause … Continue reading
I want my, I want my IPA–Part II
The first part of this essay showed how the architecture of the Institutional Patent Agreement differs from the new structure introduced by the Bayh-Dole Act. An IPA was a master agreement while Bayh-Dole was embedded in patent law, applied to … Continue reading
I want my, I want my IPA–Part I
From time to time advocates of the idea that Bayh-Dole vests ownership of inventions with employers argue that the intent of the law was to build off of the Institutional Patent Agreement model developed by the NIH. The IPA approach … Continue reading
A Brief History of University Patent Policies
[Updated May 2018] American University Patent Policies: A Brief History 1900-1924 Universities have no formal policy on patents, and follow defaults provided by law, addressing issues as they arise. 1912 University of California professor Frederick Cottrell forms non-profit Research Corporation … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged History, IPA, NIH, NSF, patent policy, Science the Endless Frontier, university
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