Tag Archives: technology transfer

Inventors would own more, were it not for noncompliant Bayh-Dole practice

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

I saw this tweet this morning: I agree Inventors should own more, but institutions were/are the heart of Bayh-Dole that (arguably) enables IP-driven startups… this is bc many/most PI inventions would go into a black hole without tech transfer officer … Continue reading →

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A university technology transfer annotated reading list

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Gerald Barnett

So you want to tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain. Got it! Here is a basic reading list of documents that frame the history of university technology transfer. I’ve put it in chronological order and provide links to … Continue reading →

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Lessons from The Sound of Innovation: Lesson 1, On the Border

Posted on June 7, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

In The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution, Andrew J. Nelson recounts how John Chowning and others developed digital music while working in between the cracks of computer science, music, and electrical engineering. Nelson emphasizes this situation … Continue reading →

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Five Steps to Restoring an Effective University IP Practice, Step 4

Posted on February 12, 2022 by Gerald Barnett

We are working through five steps to getting a university back to an effective IP practice, a practice aligned with academic values and focused on actual technology transfer. The idea of “technology transfer” is bureaucratic in origin. As a concept … Continue reading →

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Nicotine Patches, 1

Posted on December 18, 2021 by Gerald Barnett

The Bayh-Dole Coalition recently posted on Twitter a claim that the development of the nicotine patch was a Bayh-Dole “success story”: Bayh-Dole Success Story! Did you know that the nicotine patch was developed at @UCLA and commercialized via Bayh-Dole? Check … Continue reading →

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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 10: the drivers that eventually produce Bayh-Dole

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Gerald Barnett

There’s the version of the theory of patent rights that asserts that exclusionary practice is at the heart of the value of a patent, and any practice that declines to assert a patent wastes that value. This theory of exclusionary … Continue reading →

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Funnel vision and university default exclusive licensing

Posted on June 3, 2021 by Gerald Barnett

Much of the current, dominant narrative about patents at universities depends on looking isolating single inventions at a single institution with a single profile for use. “Inventions,” so this narrative go, will not be used or developed unless for each … Continue reading →

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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 4

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Gerald Barnett

H. Holden Thorp, editor in chief at Science magazine and formerly chancellor at Washington University and before that the University of North Carolina, published an editorial in Science, “An opportunity to improve innovation” that provides insight on the UW FAST … Continue reading →

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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 11: Two key provisions

Posted on October 13, 2020 by Gerald Barnett

A university patent policy designed to promote effective technology transfer will have these key provisions: Voluntary participation Default institutional non-exclusive FRAND offer These are key elements. FRAND is “fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory.” We will work through the reasons why these … Continue reading →

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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 5: Transfer relationships and leading assets

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Gerald Barnett

We are working on university patent policies for effective technology transfer. I have described the Eat and Fart model that dominates university patent practice: eat everything, fart a lot, and drop a financial turd once every decade or two to … Continue reading →

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