The New Biden Executive Order: Undermining Bayh-Dole is Like Shooting...
Late Friday, the Biden Administration unveiled what must be one of the longest Executive Orders in history, titled “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” In 31 pages, it covers everything...
View ArticleDon’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole with the Foes of Bayh-Dole
Sensing an opening after the Biden Administration’s recent Executive Order put a hold on a pending regulation prohibiting the misuse of the march-in rights provision of the Bayh-Dole Act for price...
View ArticleLet No Good Deed Go Unpunished—The Tale of a COVID-19 Breakthrough
The lead story in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal made an exciting announcement: “Merck Covid-19 Pill Cuts Risks of Hospitalizations and Death”: "Merck & Co. and its partner Ridgeback...
View ArticleConservatives Urge HHS to Deny Turning Bayh-Dole March-In Provision into...
Thirty-one signatories from 29 center-right public policy organizations have written U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, urging him to deny a petition from Knowledge Ecology...
View ArticleDOE’s Misuse of Bayh-Dole’s ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ Provision: How...
A principal purpose of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 was imposing a uniform patent ownership policy on all federal agencies. Previously, agencies took rights to inventions made with their funding, but over...
View ArticleThe Bayh-Dole System Just Keeps Rollin’ Along – Despite Attempts to Throw it...
How about some good economic news? That’s in short supply these days as the nation teeters on the brink of recession, driven by raging inflation and skyrocketing gas prices. But in good times and bad,...
View ArticleFlawed Scheme to Lower Prescription Drug Prices Would Do the Opposite
The waning days of summer signal the approaching midterm election season. Amid inflation, recession and voter discontent, it’s understandable that a group of congress members are anxious to put points...
View ArticleLawmakers Aim a Triple Whammy at American Innovation
Last week, the Bayh-Dole Coalition held a webinar titled “The Three-Pronged Attack on U.S. Innovation and Intellectual Property.” Before we consider each prong, it's worthwhile reflecting on a larger...
View ArticleIndustry Risk and Investment Drives Academic Tech Transfer
AUTM, which represents the academic technology management profession, just released the results of the survey of its members for 2021. Once again, the results are impressive, particularly considering...
View ArticleGIPC Letter to Senators Pushes Back on ‘False Narrative’ Exaggerating Public...
On March 22, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) sent a letter addressed to Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA), respectively the Chair and Ranking...
View ArticleSenator Sanders’ Amendment Dooms NIH-Supported Innovation
Rattled by the failure of the Biden Administration to bow to pressure to misuse the march-in rights provision of the Bayh-Dole Act so the government can regulate prices on products based on federally...
View ArticleBiden Executive Order on Domestic Manufacturing of Federally Funded...
On Friday, July 28, President Biden announced a new Executive Order titled “Federal Research and Development in Support of Domestic Manufacturing and United States Jobs.” Rumors that the Administration...
View ArticleNIH Tech Transfer Workshop Underscores Fight to Properly Characterize Federal...
On July 31, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) hosted a virtual workshop titled Transforming Discoveries into Products: Maximizing NIH’s Levers to Catalyze Technology Transfer. Public comments...
View ArticleU.S Manufacturing Requirement Changes the Landscape for Bayh-Dole Compliance...
In recent months, two U.S. government executive initiatives have reshaped the landscape concerning intellectual property and the domestic production of products resulting from federally funded...
View ArticleProposed Framework on March-In Rights Dubbed ‘Unprecedented’ by U.S. Chamber
The National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) and the Department of Commerce today published a draft version of a Federal Register Notice seeking comments on a proposed framework for...
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