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Dr. Kenney and Dr. Patton recently completed a whitepaper Reconsidering the Bayh-Dole Act and the Current University Ownership Model. This paper examines the effects of the landmark legislation and the issues currently plaguing university technology transfer and suggests two alternative invention commercialization models. IPAO has selected excerpts from this paper that provide insight into the motivations and assumptions that led to the passage of Bayh-Dole. Read more>

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Proponents of patent reform have drawn a grim picture of the state of affairs of intellectual property in America. The worse the situation seems, the more urgent the need to "reform" it and the more acceptable the proposed band-aid - in this case the Patent Reform Act of 2009.

But according to retiring Chief Judge Paul Michel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), much of the hype suggesting a crisis in the patent system is just that - hype. Michel debunks the myths asserted by "reformists" and explains the danger if Congress buys into these illusions. Read more>

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IPAO Salutes Those Who are Moving Innovation Forward

As a new decade begins, IP Advocate would like to recognize those university TTO’s who see value in innovation as more than financial. Those institutions that regard its faculty and student researchers as integral to the technology transfer process are those that achieve. Highlighted universities include:

University of North California	U.C. Berkeley
University of Utah/Utah State	CalTech
University of Washington	Carnegie Mellon
Stanford University	MIT

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Operating a college or university is an expensive undertaking that requires tremendous funding. With a troubled economy, grants and gifts to colleges and universities have dropped. As a potential source of additional funding, commercializing the inventions of faculty researchers continues to gain momentum.

Institutions are increasingly driven by the "home run" licensing deals with promises of big revenue earning power. However, they often assume they have overriding ownership rights in faculty intellectual property, but this is not as accurate as they’d like their faculty to believe. Read more>