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A sense of proportion–2
University administrators have engaged in a thirty-year effort of research invention management that creates patent gridlock for what amounts to a tiny bit of the overall inventive activity in the country. That’s the black border area on this nice blue … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged block fest, invention, IPA, patent, Research Corporation, WARF
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Invention is not a thing, 13
There are two things that might prompt a university dealing in patents to adopt a policy default of non-exclusive licensing. One involves Bayh-Dole. The other involves a general argument directed at patenting’s public purpose–especially when a patent is held by … Continue reading
Two Published Accounts of University Licensing: WARF and Stanford
Universities generally keep secret their licensing metrics. Yes, they report the number of inventions, patents, licenses, and startups in a given year–but they don’t report how those numbers relate to one another. The inventions reported in a given year have … Continue reading
Posted in Metrics
Tagged invention, metrics, Stanford, technology transfer, university, WARF
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WARF, Vitamin D, and the Public Interest, 1
In the 1940s, WARF was basking in the income from licensing its flagship patents–on a way to irradiate food products to produce in them vitamin D. (For an interesting account with lots of details, see Rima D. Apple, a University … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Freedom, History, Policy
Tagged margarine, monopoly meme, vitamin D, Vitamin Technologists, WARF
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The devils in the details: Bayh-Dole supports academic freedom, 2
Part 1 of this article is here. By requiring the contractor to require “technical” employees to make a written agreement, (f)(2) does some fundamental things within the framework of definitions set up by Bayh-Dole. Watch the devils tumble out in … Continue reading
Posted in Bayh-Dole, Bozonet, Freedom, Sponsored Research, Stanford v Roche
Tagged (f)(2), 37 CFR 401.9, Bayh-Dole, devil, patent, subject invention, WARF
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The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, Table of Links
In May 2017 I wrote a series of articles that traced the development of the University of Wisconsin’s patent policy, how the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation shaped federal policy to disenfranchise faculty inventors in favor of its own money-making ventures … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 12
This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 How history informs the present Why spend all this time on a lost university policy from 1969 in response to a canceled IPA program? After all, we have … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 11
The article starts way back at 1: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Capitalism and commons The dichotomy between capitalism and commons is even evident in the history of WARF. Here’s a footnote from Cronon and Jenkins on … Continue reading
The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 10
This series starts here: The IPA and Wisconsin’s 1969 Patent Policy, 1 Medicinal chemistry drives the whole of federal patent policy The IPA program, revived in 1968 by the NIH following the Harbridge House report, which singled out medicinal chemistry … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, History, Policy, Sponsored Research
Tagged 5-FU, Bayh-Dole, capital, commons, PHS, public interest, WARF
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