Monthly Archives: November 2009
Bayh-Dole and Diversity
In discussions of diversity of practice, I encounter an urge to compare programs to obtain metrics of performance. In Canada, a number of universities have inventor-own policies. University of Waterloo, for instance. The immediate gesture is to ask whether Waterloo … Continue reading
Ownership Politics
I have been working through how Bayh-Dole operates to distribute patent rights arising in federally funded university and non-profit research. How things work aren’t so entirely obvious, but I’m finding folks have some deeply held beliefs about it. Things can … Continue reading
Portfolio Sniffing
Is a portfolio making $10m/year and closing 50 licenses a year high performing? Is it still high performing if it is making $9.8m from one license, and $200K total from four more, and about one third of the patenting costs … Continue reading
Bayh-Dole: The Series
It has been a wild two weeks since I raised some points with regard to university patent practice under the Bayh-Dole Act. There is much to develop, but I can’t do it all in a single post. So it will … Continue reading