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What Steps Educational Institutions Should Consider Taking to Protect Their Patent Portfolio

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In Fiscal Year 2023, colleges and universities spent approximately $109 billion on research and development expenditures of which $59.6 billion, or 55%, was federally funded. In Fiscal Year 2022, the Small Business Innovation...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

IP Hot Topic: Biden Administration Proposes Framework for Exercising Bayh-Dole March-in Rights to Control Drug Pricing

The Biden-Harris Administration recently announced various actions to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs. In one action, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released in December 2023 a draft...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Draft Guidance Puts March-In Authority Pursuant to Bayh-Dole in the News Once Again

On December 8, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for Considering the Exercise of March-In Rights (guidance) to the public for comment. The...more

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Changes To March-In Rights Under Bayh-Dole And More?

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Since its enactment in 1980, the Bayh-Dole Act has been credited with promoting the development of over 10,000 startup companies and at least 200 pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, while contributing more than $500 billion...more

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Contractors And Grantees Beware! Safe Harbors Removed In Preserving Patent Ownership Rights Under Bayh-Dole

Buried in a grab bag of seemingly innocuous course-correcting changes to the Bayh-Dole Act regulations (effective May 14 of this year) is the removal by regulators of the sixty-day window between the federal agency’s notice...more

Hogan Lovells

A Word to the Wise for Advanced Reactors Accepting DOE Money: DOE Enforces its IP Rights

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A recent headline in the energy trade press would not likely have caught the attention of the advanced nuclear industry: “Trump’s DOE punishes Obama-era solar success story.” A casual reader might quickly dismiss the story as...more

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Amendments to Rights of Federally Funded Inventions and Government Owned Inventions

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On April 13, 2018, a final rule was published in the Federal Register adopting proposed rule changes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”)....more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

March-in Rights and Compulsory License in the United States

March-in rights in the US were created in 1980, as part of the Bayh-Dole Act. Simply stated, when the US government funds research that results in patents, it obtains rights to those patents. These rights are retained even...more

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Applying for a Waiver From U.S. Manufacturing Requirements For Federally Funded Intellectual Property

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Countless ideas and inventions are developed at U.S. universities every year, often with federal funding. Many of these important ideas could not be commercialized for the public’s benefit without the Bayh-Dole Act, which...more

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