Category Archives: Commons

Explaining an Emblem of the Linear Model

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Gerry Barnett

Gene Quinn over at IP Watchdog posted last October a nice essay (h/t to François Stofft at the Linkedin International Technology Transfer Professionals group) on the problems of accelerating technology transfer by federal fiat.  The new programs that have been … Continue reading →

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Make-Use Commons in TBED, 2

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

In the previous post, I discussed the problem of accumulating a patent portfolio as a way to generate licensing income. A portfolio approach can be financially successful, but in a patent world, it needs only one or two hits a … Continue reading →

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Make-Use Commons in TBED, 1

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

At the Pacific Northwest Economic Region conference in Portland a couple of weeks ago, I introduced the idea of a Make-Use Commons as a means of tying together research patent management and regional economic development.    Let’s work through this idea.  … Continue reading →

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Go West for Innovation!

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

Here is the biggest outcome of Stanford v Roche: Bayh-Dole does not require universities to take ownership of inventions made with federal funds, does not mandate that universities do so, does not restrain the rights of inventors so they can … Continue reading →

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Cities of Innovation

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

Geoffrey West in Edge 343 (WHY CITIES KEEP GROWING, CORPORATIONS AND PEOPLE ALWAYS DIE, AND LIFE GETS FASTER): “Well, Google is a bit of an exception, because it still tolerates some of that. But most companies start out probably with … Continue reading →

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Five Key Elements of Open Innovation

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

I work with five key elements in open innovation business models: critical mass congestion externalities weak ties drivers Critical mass is a restatement that open doesn’t matter if it’s solitary.   There has to be at least another player.  Generally, a … Continue reading →

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Opening up technology transfer

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

Open innovation presents challenges to conventional forms of university technology transfer, even as the conventional forms are a start at open innovation. Continue reading →

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Fragmentation

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

When a bunch of universities file patents on bits and pieces of an area of research, such as has happened in nanotechnology, who are the big winners? That is, there is a commons made of patent claim thicket. No one … Continue reading →

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Patent Fair Use, Commons, and Research Inventions

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

Madey v. Duke wasn’t a good thing for research. Essentially, it put an end to the idea of a research use exception to patent claims. Whatever the merits of the case, there is no question in my mind that it’s … Continue reading →

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Taking it to the Street

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

Jane Jacobs wrote one of the definitive critiques of central planning in her The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Fifty years on, the work still hits home. In DLGAC, Jacobs starts with the life of the street, arguing … Continue reading →

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