Proposal from Senator King Won’t Reduce Drug Prices, Just Innovation
Many were stunned to learn that Senator Angus King (I-ME) included language undermining the Bayh-Dole Act in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committee as it approved the National Defense...
View ArticleBernie Sander’s Really Bad Idea
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation requiring every agency and non-profit entity to include a "reasonable pricing" provision based on King's formula for any life science invention made...
View ArticleConservatives’ Letter to U.S. Senate Says Preserve Bayh-Dole
Though aimed at certain pharmaceutical products, Sens. Angus King’s and Bernie Sanders’ potential amendments would throw the key to the Bayh-Dole Act’s success —certainty and exclusivity of the...
View ArticleThink Twice Before Pulling the Plug on Tech Transfer
Most assaults on public/private sector R&D partnerships are launched by those who believe patents are inherently bad and that through some undefined magic publicly funded inventions will be...
View ArticlePity the Patients if Exclusive Licensing is Undermined
We've learned from experience that just because a theory's off base doesn't mean it won't take root, particularly when it involves patents and medicine. "No Vaccines Before the Next Zika Outbreak?: A...
View ArticleWhen Big Brother Comes Marching In: Patent Challenges on Entrepreneurial...
Bayh-Dole has recently come under attack, as some are trying to highjack certain provisions to be used as a cost control measure for novel therapeutics as the cost of drugs skyrocket. Should the...
View ArticleAnother IP Professor Attack On Patenting
I was just thinking how often someone teaching intellectual property law leads the attack on the patent system when "Racing for academic glory and patents: Lessons from CRISPR" appeared. It sounds a...
View ArticleAUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent...
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM survey. In an executive...
View ArticleCommerce Secretary ready to push update to tech transfer laws to ensure...
Secretary Ross gave an unequivocal endorsement of Bayh-Dole specifically, and more generally saying laws need to be updated to address business and technology realities of today, and to enable more...
View ArticleUnleashing American Innovation, Oil States and Eroom’s Law
NCATS is working with industry to de-risk promising therapies by helping to take them further down the development pipeline. But the key ingredient remains finding a private sector partner willing and...
View ArticleWant a greater ROI for taxpayers? Restore the patent system, protect...
Three events boosted our economic turnaround in the 1980's: the passage of Bayh-Dole, which injected the incentives of patent ownership into the federal R&D system; the enactment of the Court of...
View ArticleUniversities: Fallen Angels or Stewards of Bayh-Dole?
University discoveries are recognized as critical national assets because Bayh-Dole gave academic institutions the ability to own and manage inventions made with federal funding. The law helped lift...
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