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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-3

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through the NIH’s Institutional Patent Agreement master template to establish the context for Bayh-Dole’s use of “reasonable terms” in its definition of practical application, which in turn establishes the march-in threshold for 35 USC 203(a)(1), one of … Continue reading →

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Bayh-Dole Basics, 8: Reasonable Terms Comments-2

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Gerald Barnett

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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