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Bayh-Dole the Monster

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

The Bayh-Dole Act makes a great deal about public interest. Throughout the law are gestures toward worthy objectives–use of inventions, manufacturing in the United States, government licenses, and the right of federal agencies to step if they need to. But … Continue reading →

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The Key Provisions of Bayh-Dole

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Now, with all that fusstation from the University of Pittsburgh out of the way, we might ask then what are the “key provisions” of Bayh-Dole that a university should make faculty and the public aware of. Only One Key Provision … Continue reading →

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The Special Case Keeps Giving

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

Here is the special case university research invention. I have expanded it to show the logic. A special case invention is one that cannot be used without “development” and the “development” involves substantial effort at private expense and the “development” … Continue reading →

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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 12

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 How history informs the present Why spend all this time on a lost university policy from 1969 in response to a canceled IPA program? After all, we have … Continue reading →

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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 7

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

The start of this article is here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 WARF’s Charter and Antitrust WARF’s charter was designed to prevent the University of Wisconsin from using its money for non-scientific research–social sciences, humanities, and the … Continue reading →

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DIY Plus: inventions, claims, and technology transfer

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

I will start with a mostly unreadable diagram: This is the rhetorical anatomy of the relationship between an invention and a patent, or a “claimed invention.” It is important to see the difference because people tend to talk about inventions … Continue reading →

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Institutional Patent Licensing–One of the least “direct” ways to obtain new technology

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Gerald Barnett

A few weeks ago I was involved in a discussion about how a region might import new technology developed at distant universities. One of the participants, with a background in AUTM-style technology transfer, made the off-hand comment that if we … Continue reading →

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Working through an old op/ed on university ownership of inventions

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Gerald Barnett

I was out browsing the web and came across an op/ed from 2011 published in the Baylor University magazine Lariat. The anonymous author was opining about the Stanford v Roche case and the title makes clear the position: “Patents should … Continue reading →

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How can universities demonstrate they aren’t patent trolls?

Posted on November 14, 2016 by Gerald Barnett

Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that university administrators at places like Caltech don’t want to be labelled patent trolls. What might make it clear that universities are not just one more set of patent trolls? “We’re not … Continue reading →

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Florida State’s garbled mess of patent guidance

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Gerald Barnett

[Updated with new accounts of garbledness and bad juju. This policy just keeps giving.] Florida State University’s “Office of Commercialization” starts a guidance web site off with an enumeration of points about intellectual property. Here’s the first point: Employee Guideline: … Continue reading →

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