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Reagan’s Executive Order 12591-4
In the implementation of Bayh-Dole, then, employee-inventors own unless they assign rights, such as to an institutional Contractor. We can use “Contractor” with a capital “C” to follow the usage in the Federal Procurement Regulation’s patent rights clause that implements … Continue reading
Reagan’s Executive Order 12591-3
President Reagan’s Executive Order 12591 does one more odd thing. It makes the contractor’s title to patents conditioned on a government license. But this government license is not the one required by Bayh-Dole. Here’s Bayh-Dole (35 USC 202(c)(4)): With respect … Continue reading
Reagan’s Executive Order 12591-2
So far we have discussed President Reagan’s Executive Order 12591 mandating the promotion of commercialization (something not in Bayh-Dole) by having federal agencies grant title to patents (something else not in Bayh-Dole) to all contractors–not just to large companies that … Continue reading
Reagan’s Executive Order 12591-1
[Some slight elaborations here and there. 1/6/2020. Latker claims he wrote this EO. Makes sense, given the crappy (or clever–but still sloppy) drafting.] In 1987, President Reagan issued Executive Order 12591, which extended, sort of, the Bayh-Dole Act to all … Continue reading
Federal law on inventions made with federal support
First, the brief version: Specialty statutes for specific federal purposes control federal claims of ownership of inventions made under federal contract. The Nixon patent policy as amended by Reagan’s executive order otherwise controls federal claims of ownership of inventions made under … Continue reading
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