Tag Archives: Moloch

A personal update and musing on certain failures of statistics in medicine

Just a note here about my health and the direction for this blog. First, it’s great to see that people are still coming to read articles about technology transfer and cockroach living. Maybe there’s hope out there, or at least … Continue reading

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Stop being Moloch

Here is a short form of the argument that nothing is a better way than the approach to technology transfer, IP, licensing that universities have at present. The present approach universities take to IP management/technology transfer does not work, has … Continue reading

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Why I stepped away, and why I am back

I’ve been asked where I’ve been for the past year, and to brief about it, I decided to step away from writing and focus on other things, such as working with companies. I also felt that I had had enough … Continue reading

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What has NIST done, actually?-3

The start of this article is here. We have been working through what NIST’s introduction of an assignment requirement for subject inventions actually does. In one view, nothing. In another, a technical if not prissy requirement that inventions a contractor … Continue reading

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Assigning the SPRC

Melba Kurman asks in a comment to the previous post that I discuss assignment of the SPRC in more detail. Melba has an interesting blog on university technology management, so check it out here. [The blog has been retired–but for … Continue reading

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