Posts Tagged: association of university technology managers
Think 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 …
Academic Patent Licensing Helps Drive the U.S. Economy
What's even more impressive is the impacts on gross industry output and GDP are up 14% while the number of U.S. jobs supported rose 12% since the previous …
State Department, Universities Blast UN Attack on Patents
If the UN Secretary General and the members of his "High Level Panel on Access to Medicines" thought the State Department was bluffing when it warned against …
Caltech’s infringement lawsuit against Apple, Broadcom is latest in university patent suit trend
According to multiple reports, the Caltech patents-in-suit are incorporated into both the 802.11n and 802.11ac wireless connectivity standards, which are used by Apple products to communicate digital …
Winning 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, …
Tech 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, …
Exit 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 …
Patents, Prosperity and Political Systems
Unfortunately, we are going through another period where many see the triumvirate of big government, big business and big labor guiding an economy stuck at a 2% growth …
Patent 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 …
In Defense of Patents and Licensing: Why the Newest Attack is Bogus
Fortunately, a new study showing that academic patent licensing contributed more than $1 trillion to the U.S. economy over eighteen years blows the stuffing right out of …
Bayh-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 …
Universities are NOT Patent Trolls
Jane Muir, AUTM President: "[U]niversities are not the next patent troll because at the end of the day, university tech transfer offices were put into place …
Exclusive Interview with AUTM President Jane Muir
Jane Muir, AUTM President: "[T]he majority of all the discoveries that come out of universities and research institutions are very early stage. They’re at the …
It’s Not Paranoia – They Really Are After You
First of all, congratulations! You made The Washington Post and they even spelled your name correctly. Unfortunately, AUTM was specifically called out in an article titled Patent …
Spread the Word About Tech Transfer – It Works!
At IPWatchdog.com we write about Bayh-Dole, technology transfer and University innovation regularly. In 2014 we are going to more regularly write about University innovations in the hope …