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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 2: Why universities patent
For an account that covers reasonably well the context for universities getting involved in patenting, see Elizabeth Popp Berman’s 2006 paper “Why Do Universities Patent? The Role of the Federal Government in Creating Modern Technology Transfer Practice” (draft here). What … 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
That special special case 5: From invention to patent to flip
Patent System and Public Covenants If the patent system is good as it is, and does not require a public covenant to run with inventions made in federally supported research, then why should federal policy endorse the two circumventions of … Continue reading
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Bayh-Dole’s restrictions on Pigpen use of licensing income, I
Here’s a part of Bayh-Dole that’s odd. It is a requirement for a provision in the standard patent rights clause specific to nonprofits, 35 USC 202(c)(7)(C): (7) In the case of a nonprofit organization … (C) … a requirement that the balance of … Continue reading