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Feeling Festive and Innovation Optimistic

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

The year is winding down and it’s holiday time.   Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and festive solstice! Folks will have different perspectives on research enterprise and innovation, and its worth having some frank and firm arguing about it, but the whole … Continue reading →

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A new page

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Gerry Barnett

I have added a new page, Guide to the Bayh-Dole Act.  This is a piece that I put together for the Innovation Reading Group last spring, and thought I would revise it and post it here as well, where it … Continue reading →

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Updated Stuff

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

I have moved the Bayh-Dole Reading Group from Google Groups (where it still sits) to Google Sites, and changed the link over on the right.  I’ve also put the BDRG in a broader context, the Innovation Reading Group.  I aim … Continue reading →

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Housekeeping

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Gerald Barnett

The blog was down for a bit while Yahoo site hosting dealt with a server glitch. Things appear to be back up now. I have been busy traveling over the past few weeks, and dealing with some health issues, but … Continue reading →

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The AbyNormal Patent Act

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

We are working through what Bayh-Dole did and didn’t do in managing federally funded inventions made at universities. If you are with me, we did a “thought experience”. Then I got all grumpy about rhetoric. But that’s out of my … Continue reading →

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If it weren’t for bad luck

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

A bad IP policy is worse than nothing. The purpose of an IP policy is (1) to change in the defaults of law, (2) to provide clarity with regard to employment obligations, (3) to set out protocols to manage IP, … Continue reading →

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Getting it Out of My System

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

Okay, I’ve got a number of posts backed up here. I need to do some plumbing. A lot of work on Bayh-Dole, but it’s hardly the main areas of my interest right now. I’d like to work out some of … Continue reading →

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RSS feed problems

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

A little housekeeping. Spent the weekend trying to fix the RSS feed. Appears to be a Firefox problem. Things are working for the comments feed, and in IE, I think. Sorry about the glitches.

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Oh, No, Another Friend Like This!

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Gerry Barnett

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 →

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Rejecting Foreign Assistance, Too

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Gerald Barnett

Here is another article showing why the US is rejecting foreign assistance. And here’s a piece discussing how adding a criminal investigation will make it harder to try anything at all! A federal panel could gatekeep to say: here is … Continue reading →

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