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Hormones and Patents
Graham Dutfield at the University of Leeds has published an article on the development of medical hormone products and patent law, “Patent on Steroids: What Hormones Tell Us about the Evolution of Patent Law.” The article doesn’t do as much … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation
Tagged hormones, invention, patents, pharmaceutical
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NIST’s “substantially fueled” premise for unleashing innovation
Here is a claim from the opening of a recent NIST report–1234–on “Unleashing American Innovation,” a “draft green paper”: The U.S. innovation system is substantially fueled by the discoveries and inventions arising from federally funded R&D at the Nation’s universities, … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Metrics, Policy
Tagged innovation, NIST, patents, research
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The dogs in the manger, 2
We are working through some testimony from 1979 by a federal patent attorney, R. Tenney Johnson, before a Senate subcommittee considering a federal government invention policy bill that was a rival to Bayh-Dole (and strikingly similar, and didn’t pass). Johnson … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, History
Tagged Bayh-Dole, development, dogs, inventions, Johnson, patents
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Guide to Bayh-Dole by the Layers, 7
Eighth layer: Outcomes We reach the eighth and final layer of Bayh-Dole: outcomes. We can consider four elements of outcomes: activity, cost, practical application, and the effects of patent monopoly exclusion on such things as research, rapid industry and professional … Continue reading
Institutional patent derangement syndrome
The discussion of university ownership of patents on inventions made in faculty-led research invariably adopts the singular. Consider one invention at one university. Now, doesn’t it make sense that university administrators should take over that invention for the good of … Continue reading
Posted in Bozonet, Policy, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
Tagged institutional patent derangement syndrome, inventions, madness, nanotubes, patents
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“Only assholes get patents…”
Slashdot points to a recent blog post by Marco Arment on dealing with feature copying and imitation in software apps. Arment summaries copyright and trademark angles, noting that neither provides much defense. He then moves on to patents: Only assholes … Continue reading
Mississippi State University misrepresents Bayh-Dole
Here’s Mississippi State University’s Office Technology Management answering the question “Why does the University patent technology?” It is required under federal grants – The University is required to patent and commercialize the technology under terms of the Bayh-Dole Act. If the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bayh-Dole, inventions, Kawasaki, Lie #7, Mississippi State University, patents
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Whistling all the way to the bank, revisited 3
Having established the contracting problem for government-sponsored “basic research,” let’s get into how the patent administration folks got into changing things around from government ownership (with its open access, often without conditions or formalities) to institutional ownership (or, more accurately, … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Sponsored Research, Technology Transfer
Tagged Bayh-Dole, inventions, IPA, patents
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The National Patent Planning Commission argument for government-created private patent monopolies, 2
We are looking at the National Patent Planning Commission argument that the government should be permitted to grant exclusive patent licenses on inventions that it acquires. The basic position is that it is a good thing that the government should … Continue reading
Posted in History, Innovation, Policy
Tagged Archie Palmer, National Patent Planning Commission, patents, university research
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The Most Innovative Public University in the World
The University of Washington ran a press release a couple of days ago announcing that Thomson Reuters has named UW the “most innovative public university in the world.” A reader might think that the ranking methodology includes the number of startups, … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Metrics
Tagged patents, thomson, Washington
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