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Latker Here, There, and Everywhere in Bayh-Dole
Norman J. Latker is the architect of present federal patent policy. Let’s work through his resume. It provides a remarkable tale of persistent influence leading to the unenforced, innovation-stagnating, dismal-performance (but it’s all kept secret, by law) Bayh-Dole Act. Latker … Continue reading
For Latker, Bayh-Dole wins a political battle over delivery of research to the public
In February 1974, Norman J. Latker, patent counsel for the NIH, gave a talk in Chicago with the title “Progress Towards a Uniform U.S. Government Patent Policy for Universities and Non-Profit Organizations.” You can find most of it at IP … Continue reading
The IPA and Bayh-Dole on nonprofit assignment of subject inventions, 3
We are working through the approaches of the IPA master and Bayh-Dole’s standard patent rights clause to the assignment of inventions by nonprofit organizations. Unlike the IPA, which was a federal master contract made with selected organizations, Bayh-Dole is a … Continue reading
The IPA and Bayh-Dole on nonprofit assignment of subject inventions, 2
We have looked at the IPA assignment clause. Since the IPA is specific to nonprofits, there’s no reason to call out nonprofitedness. But there is a reason then to restrict any later invention assignment to nonprofit assignees. Why? The point … Continue reading
The IPA and Bayh-Dole on nonprofit assignment of subject inventions, 1
Norman Latker, patent counsel at the NIH, drafted Bayh-Dole on the sly, working against HEW policy on inventions to create an easier pathway by which nonprofits could pass exclusive control of inventions made in work receiving NIH funding to the … Continue reading
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Tagged assignment, Bayh-Dole, CNIOSI, IPA, Latker, subject invention
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The Turning Point in Federal Patent Policy
1971. Here’s where things started to go bad. In 1963, President Kennedy issued a memorandum setting forth executive branch patent policy. When the federal government acquired inventions, the policy stipulated that patents would be made available “through dedication or licensing”–that … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Freedom, History, Policy
Tagged exclusive license, IPA, Kennedy, Latker, Nixon, patent policy
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Bayh-Dole, Tyrannosaurus
Bayh-Dole is a mess of a law. There’s the mess of the conception itself, the disgusting and ineffectual idea that the federal government should sue its citizens for using inventions made with public funding to advance public purposes–and should do … Continue reading
The point at which federal patent policy in 1971 broke from public interest
Here’s the point at which federal patent policy broke from the public interest. In 1971, President Nixon revised the Kennedy patent policy. One of the revisions was to the federal disposition of inventions. Here’s Kennedy: Government-owned patents shall be made … Continue reading
The Purpose of Bayh-Dole: Some History
Bayh-Dole re-establishes a patent monopoly pipeline from federal funding to the pharmaceutical industry. The NIH first created this patent pipeline in 1968 when Norman Latker, patent counsel at the NIH, restarted the Institutional Patent Agreement program that had been allowed … Continue reading
Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-2
Now we get to government rights under march in. Here we have complications. In 1968, Norman Latker, NIH’s patent counsel, revived the Institutional Patent Agreement program, under which the NIH (and later the NSF) contracted with nonprofits so that a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, development, exclusive license, IPA, Latker, march-in, master agreement
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