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Inventors would own more, were it not for noncompliant Bayh-Dole practice
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
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Metrics, Patents, Policy
Tagged Bayh-Dole, license, nonprofit, technology transfer
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A university technology transfer annotated reading list
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
Posted in Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged blue skies, pain, reading list, technology transfer
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Lessons from The Sound of Innovation: Lesson 1, On the Border
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
Posted in History, Innovation, Technology Transfer
Tagged Chowning, edge of chaos, fringe, technology transfer
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Five Steps to Restoring an Effective University IP Practice, Step 4
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
Posted in History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged royalty schedule, SBIR, sponsored research, technology transfer
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Nicotine Patches, 1
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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Tagged Alza, nicotine, patch, technology transfer, University of California
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The use of the patent system for federal research results, 10: the drivers that eventually produce Bayh-Dole
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
Posted in Bayh-Dole, History, Policy, Technology Transfer
Tagged exclusion, patent, safeguard, technology transfer
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Funnel vision and university default exclusive licensing
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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Tagged defection, exclusive licensing, funnel, narrative, patent, technology transfer, turdly
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UW’s Fast Start template, another bad bureaucratic idea gone bad, 4
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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Tagged Bayh-Dole, pathways, technology transfer, Thorp
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 11: Two key provisions
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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Tagged effective, licensing, money, shit pie, technology transfer
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University Patent Policy for Effective Technology Transfer, 5: Transfer relationships and leading assets
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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Tagged adjacent possible, dinking, eat and fart, effective, relationship, technology transfer
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