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Time for an executive order to bring federal agencies into compliance with Bayh-Dole
Bayh-Dole precludes federal enforcement of federally owned patents. The president should issue an executive order confirming this situation by forbidding federal agencies to enforce patent rights covering federally owned patents. Doing so would remove a huge barrier to public utilization … Continue reading
Federal agency patent enforcement under Bayh-Dole, 1
This may appear to be an outrageous claim, but it isn’t. Bayh-Dole does not authorize federal agencies to enforce patents held by the federal government. That much is not outrageous because there is nothing in Bayh-Dole that authorizes such enforcement. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, invention, patent
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Bayh-Dole precludes enforcement of federal patents
An argument regarding enforcement of federally owned inventions. Bluntly: the federal government lacks the authority to enforce patents, and the federal government should not enforce patents, and federal dealing in patent monopolies does not work. Let’s expand the argument to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, copyright, enforcement, patent
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Patents in Space-4
Famiya Masood, a columnist for a Pakistani newspaper, argues in a recent article that government-funded research at universities in Pakistan is not “translating into inventions that can be eventually patented.” Masood seems to believe that this is not a good … Continue reading
Patents in Space-3
We are working through an article by Famiya Masood published March 11, 2020 in The Nation, a Pakistan newspaper. Masood takes up an important issue–how to make Pakistani research supported by the government more productive for things that people are … Continue reading
Posted in Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, patent, research, speculation
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Patents in Space-2
Famiya Masood, a columnist for The Nation, an English-language Pakistani newspaper and law student at Northwestern University, has published an article that argues that Pakistan needs more patents from its government-funded research. Well, perhaps. But she gets Bayh-Dole wrong on … Continue reading
Patents in Space-1
The Nation, an English-language Pakistani newspaper, published an article on March 11 by Famiya Masood, “Patents in Pakistan” that argues the government must create incentives for university inventors. That much is interesting. But Masood builds her argument using Bayh-Dole as … Continue reading
A WIPO Economist Gets Bayh-Dole Wrong
Here’s an article by Mario Cervantes, an economist at OECD, “Academic Patenting: How universities and public research organizations are using their intellectual property to boost research and spur innovation start-ups.” Cervantes claims that universities “protecting their inventions” somehow increases their … Continue reading
A sense of proportion–4
To lay it out in bullet points, the now dominant university patent-based approach to research inventions defaulting to exclusive licenses: fragments invention platforms with no way to restore them attracts speculative investors while pushing away companies raises barriers to early … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, History, Innovation, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged catch-22, invention, patent, protection, technology transfer
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A sense of proportion–2
University administrators have engaged in a thirty-year effort of research invention management that creates patent gridlock for what amounts to a tiny bit of the overall inventive activity in the country. That’s the black border area on this nice blue … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged block fest, invention, IPA, patent, Research Corporation, WARF
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