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Department of Commerce Initiates Bayh-Dole Compliance Review and Asserts March-In Proceeding Targeting Harvard University Patents

On August 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce notified Harvard University (Harvard) that it has initiated a comprehensive review of Harvard’s federally funded research programs to assure compliance with the Bayh-Dole...more

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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

Quarles & Brady LLP

March-In Rights Revisited: A New Era of Enforcement?

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On August 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce sent a letter to Harvard University—also shared publicly on the social media platform X—alleging that the university failed to comply with several provisions of the Bayh-Dole...more

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NIH Cuts and Potential Impacts on Intellectual Property

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On January 27th, the Trump administration issued an order (the January 27th order) freezing all federal grants and loans, which would have cut billions of dollars of federal funding, largely to research universities....more

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Streamlining University IP Innovation: How the Improving Efficiency to Increase Competition Act Could Advance University...

University-driven innovation is a cornerstone of societal progress, as academic institutions play a pivotal role in advancing research and technology that fuel economic growth, enhance quality of life, and address global...more

Sunstein LLP

August 2018 IP Update - Revisions to Bayh-Dole Act Regulations Governing Rights to Federally Funded Inventions

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Rules affecting recipients of federal research and development funding have recently been revised, adding new deadlines and obligations. Changes to the regulations implementing the Bayh-Dole Act went into effect on May 14,...more

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Bayh-Dole Act Revisions

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On May 14, 2018, several important revisions to regulations of the Bayh-Dole Act (University and Small Business Patent Procedure Act of 1980, codified as 35 U.S.C. § 200) went into effect. The final revisions were published...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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