Git’er Done! Take the Brake Off Federal Tech Transfer
Any government truly interested in commercializing its research must realize that time is of the essence, risk is inherent in the process and deal makers should be supported by process. Napoleon...
View ArticleBayh-Dole: The Envy of the World Because it Works
MUIR: "There are approximately 40 countries around the world that have enacted their own version of the Bayh-Dole legislation because they have seen the numbers. They have seen the success that the...
View ArticleEternal Vigilance is the Price of Bayh-Dole
Debates over economic fairness, the appropriate role of government in the economy and the value of the patent system spill over into our world. One factor that made the enactment of Bayh-Dole so...
View ArticleA Rebuke to Terrorists
Long term economic growth is intricately linked with political freedom. Political freedom fosters stable international relations. Stable international relations promote wealth creation. And so the...
View ArticleUniversity of Wisconsin Celebrates 90 Years of Innovation Excellence
For the past 90 years WARF has promoted scientific research and innovation at UW-Madison and has earned more than $800 million in patent royalty revenues over the years and has generated $1.25 billion...
View ArticleFlawed survey erroneously concludes patent licensing does not contribute to...
There are a variety of problems with this paper, the conclusions reached and the methodology. Perhaps the largest problem is that Professors Feldman and Lemley rely on subjective evidence rather than...
View ArticleBayh-Dole Forecast: Sunny with 20% chance of Shark Attack
How tragic if the United States of America turns its patent system into a tool that rich and powerful companies use to suppress innovation that challenges their comfortable status quo. But Just because...
View ArticleSenate Small Business Committee finds consensus on patent reform
Significant consensus was reached between representatives of small business and universities at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on March 19, 2015. The...
View ArticleHunting Bayh-Dole Vampires
The government is funding basic research at universities, not drug development. Bayh-Dole allows schools to own resulting inventions and license them for commercialization. These discoveries are more...
View ArticleLooking Down on the Patent System from the Ivory Tower
The patent system is not a tool for entrenched interests to stifle competition, as so many professors seem to believe. Patents allow independent inventors and small companies to compete against better...
View ArticlePatent policy is too important for subterfuge and academic folly
As the new academic year starts in earnest we can be sure that the all too familiar attacks on the patent system will reemerge, as they always seem to do. Patent critics, who are not averse to making...
View ArticleWhy you shouldn’t trust Fortune Magazine on patent policy
Like a lemming running off a cliff, Fortune author Jeff John Roberts ignores easily verifiable historical truths in what can really only be described as a hit piece on the patent system and patents in...
View ArticleBayh-Dole at 35: Lauded in Kazakhstan, Dissed in Boston
Being abroad where Bayh-Dole is recognized as the gold standard in technology transfer made the article more jarring. Like whack a mole, the refuted claims of the critics pop up to create the...
View ArticleBayh-Dole Under March-in Assault: Can It Hold Out?
The new year was hardly underway before Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and 50 of his House colleagues sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and NIH Director Francis...
View ArticleExit Interview: A Conversation with Outgoing AUTM President Fred Reinhart
During Reinhart's year as President much changed at AUTM. There was a concerted effort to transition to a a strategic board of directors that would result in more dynamic member engagement, AUTM hired...
View ArticleTech Transfer 101: It’s A Better World with University Technology
AUTM collects quantitative data and facts about the benefits of university tech transfer, but the qualitative evidence is actually the most important. With the Better World Report, which just hit 500...
View ArticleSenate Small Business Committee hearing focuses protecting rights of patent...
Committee chairman Senator David Vitter (R-LA) began the hearing by speaking about the importance of a strong patent system to small businesses all over America, as well as the importance of those...
View ArticleWinning the Patent Policy Wars
We're in the business of transforming early stage, publicly funded research into useful products. The odds against success are long as commercialization requires years of hard work, a lot of money and...
View ArticleNIH Pressured to Misuse Bayh-Dole to Control Drug Prices
Secretary Burwell and Director Collins are facing formidable pressure to reinterpret the Bayh-Dole Act for the compulsory licensing of costly drugs arising from federally supported research. And the...
View ArticleWhen Government Tried March In Rights To Control Health Care Costs
As we await the decision from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the petition backed by Senator Bernie Sanders and others urging that the march in provision of the Bayh-Dole Act be used to...
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