Monthly Archives: July 2010
Automagicality
37 CFR 3.73. “The inventor is presumed to be the owner of a patent application, and any patent that may issue therefrom, unless there is an assignment.” In a Bayh-Dole situation, the university is never the inventor. Even if one … Continue reading
Making it Clear
Here’s the sequence of actions that complies with Bayh-Dole when a university desires ownership of a federally supported invention. 1) obtain a disclosure of invention 2) report this invention to the government 3) elect to retain title in the invention … Continue reading
The Second (Technology) Amendment
I will try something out here. It will be interesting to see whether this develops or gets shot down. I recognize there are risks. But discussion has to be courageous and willing to be shown off. The Second Amendment to … Continue reading
DIWO
Check out biocurious.org for an interesting take on the “do it with others” (DIWO) effort to extend co-working to scientific research. Here’s the good comment on paper credentials. “The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.” In a … Continue reading
Knights of the Burning Pestle and AUTM!
This shouldn’t take long, as we all have better things to do. I’ve been poking at AUTM for some time now. It’s not my favorite thing to do, but I don’t see any other discussion of what is going on. … Continue reading
Scary Flying Clowns
The university IP administrators are arguing that faculty should have no voice in the inventions they make in their research work. They want federal policy to make universities into corporate-style contract research operations, creating IP for the benefit of the … Continue reading
Oh, No, Another Friend Like This!
I’m going to work through the May 2010 amicus brief filed by AUTM WARF and others in Stanford v. Roche. The aim of the brief is to protect Bayh-Dole relative to a finding by an appeals court that a university … Continue reading
Creeping Bureauklepticism
Howard E. McCurdy has a fascinating comment on the life cycle of bureaus, with particular reference to NASA. The article is available in pdf if you have an institutional affiliation with an academic institution. McCurdy builds on work by Anthony … Continue reading
Homebrew Industrial Revolution
Looking at Kevin Carson’s latest effort. It’s pretty uneven (such as relying on John Noble for page after page to depict all modern innovation as essentially a spillover of military spending). But it does raise important issues with regard to … Continue reading