Posts Tagged: tech transfer
A Swing (and a Miss) at NIH Tech Transfer
How many people or organizations could undergo an exhaustive investigation into everything they've done over the past 30 years and emerge unscathed? That's what just happened to the …
The Evolution of University Technology Transfer: By the Numbers
In recent years there has been a paradigmatic shift towards commercializing technology through startups. There is a universal understanding that university inventions are in early technology readiness …
The China Initiative: Combating Economic Espionage and Trade Secret Exfiltration
Open innovation is a key ingredient to the development of valuable intellectual property. Research institutions, universities, and private businesses work in close collaboration with one another, sharing …
ITC Investigates University of California Complaint Against Amazon and Other Major Retailers
In late August, the U.S. International Trade Commission published a notice of institution of a Section 337 investigation on behalf of the Regents of the University of …
Special Interests are Watching Academic Tech Transfer
The original motivation for the Bayh-Dole Act was to encourage the commercialization of academic innovation so that new technologies could be available for the benefit of all. …
If We Don’t Develop Best Practices Ourselves, the Government Will
I recently delivered a keynote address at a special session of the AUTM Annual Meeting, where the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) released its new University Technology …
Is NIST Listening? Bayh-Dole is a Model for Federal Tech Transfer Improvement
It would be a tragic mistake to blame federal tech transfer underperformance on Bayh-Dole. Bayh-Dole needs no amending. Bayh-Dole demonstrates how secure patent rights are the lynchpin …
NASA Licenses Patent Portfolio to Achieve Widest Possible Distribution of Technology
NASA will enter into a range of different patent license agreements from no-cost evaluation licenses up to exclusive license. The agency’s goal in licensing technologies is …
A Shot at Patents Misses the Mark and New Study Reinforces Need to Examine Federal Tech Transfer
Academic institutions and federal labs receive approximately the same amount of R&D funding from the government, although universities have more money overall because of contributions from …
Made in China 2025 Initiative at Center of Growing IP Tensions Between United States and China
A high ranking Chinese official has announced that the Chinese government rejected a request from the United States to end its subsidization of industries identified by the …
Commerce Secretary ready to push update to tech transfer laws to ensure greater commercialization
Secretary Ross gave an unequivocal endorsement of Bayh-Dole specifically, and more generally saying laws need to be updated to address business and technology realities of today, and …
Letter to President Trump on China IP Probe is Latest Sign of Conservative Support for Private IP Rights
A group of 16 leaders from politically conservative institutions sent a letter addressed to President Donald Trump lauding the Trump Administration’s decision last summer to initiate an …
AUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent rights
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM …
Benefits of NASA Space Directive on Mars could be Limited by Uncertain Software, Biotech Patentability
President Donald Trump signed a new space policy directive for human expansion across the solar system, a directive which hearkens at least slightly back to Horace Greeley’…
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 …
