Author Archives: Gerry Barnett
SB 6542 in Star Trek
SB 6542 will force universities to a voluntary IP program, and is being opposed by administrators who believe it is a virtue to place institutional self-interest ahead of individual liberty…. Translated into Star Trek (TOS), it’s something like this:
On the Central Control of Research Innovation
Global University Venturing has published an essay that explores yet another aspect of the present assignment situation, exploring the effect of institutional claims on the dynamics of innovation. In the essay I try to put in the context the arguments … Continue reading
When public mission = money
I have been emphasizing organizational conflict of interest. Most universities have no policy on such things, and therefore technology transfer has been allowed to make a transition from a broadly faculty-led activity with a diversity of practices reflecting the range … Continue reading
Senate Bill 6542: Innovation Bill of Rights
Senator Maralyn Chase has introduced a bill in the Washington State senate that would prohibit public universities from making compulsory claims of ownership of intellectual property based on employment or use of facilities unless required by a sponsor of research. … Continue reading
Ownership vs Stewardship, Fictionally Speaking
I have a perspective piece on ownership, stewardship, and Bayh-Dole after Stanford v Roche that has been published in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. I thought I would put a link here if folks wanted to see it. Everyone talks … Continue reading
The Star Trek Version of Ohio Revised Code 3345.14, Again
Sometimes it helps to transform a problem to see how it stacks up in a familiar notation. This is done frequently in physics, for instance, where one might find a particle development advantageous over a wave-based notation for some calculations. … Continue reading
Where’d you go, Ohio?
I have written previously about the State of Ohio’s effort to frustrate federal invention policy by asserting that public universities in the state own all inventions made in research done in state facilities or by university employees in the scope … Continue reading
An Fine Overview of Corporate Sponsored Research
In 2008 Roger L. Geiger prepared this report on corporate-sponsored research for Penn State. It’s the best discussion of the subject I’ve come across. I have been involved in or closely followed a number of the programs–the Intel lablets (some … Continue reading
It’s not a change in policy, it’s not a change in policy…
Well, I guess the UC present assignment doesn’t have to be, technically, a change in policy. It could be simply a violation of policy. Note that in the UC Patent Policy, we have this: An agreement to assign inventions and … Continue reading
7 Points on the UC Present Assignment Requirement
There has been some discussion going on about the recent UC requirement that everyone sign a new patent acknowledgement, this one with a present assignment in it, with the claim that this change is needed to respond to the Stanford … Continue reading