Technology transfer : administration of the Bayh-Dole Act by research universities : report to Congressional committees / United States General Accounting Office.

  • United States. General Accounting Office
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[1998]
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    GAO Results in Brief United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-275266 May 7, 1998 The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate The Honorable Henry Hyde Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives As you know, the Patent and Trademark Laws Amendments of 1980, as amended (commonly known as the Bayh-Dole Act), requires us to review periodically chapter 18 of title 35 of the U.S. Code, which promotes the use of federally funded inventions by small businesses and nonprofit organizations. The act purposes to do this by allowing (1) nonprofit organizations such as universities to retain title to and market the inventions they created using federal research funds and (2) federal agencies to grant exclusive licenses for federally owned inventions to provide more incentive to businesses. In our last report on this subject in 1991,! we focused largely on the granting, selling, and licensing of government-owned inventions. Our current report addresses the manner in which the Bayh-Dole Act is being administered in research universities, as agreed with staff from the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and from the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary. We provide information on (1) the administration of the Bayh-Dole Act by the eight largest federal agencies that fund research and development (R&D), (2) the administration of the Bayh-Dole Act by 10 of the largest U.S. research universities, and (8) the impact of the Bayh-Dole Act, largely on the basis of annual surveys of research universities conducted by the Association of University Technology Managers (AuTM).” (Additional details on our objectives, scope, and methodology are included in app. I.) Federal agencies’ administration of the Bayh-Dole Act as it applies to research universities is decentralized. While the Department of Commerce has issued implementing regulations and provides coordination under limited circumstances, the act actually is administered by the agencies 'Technology Transfer: Federal Agencies’ Patent Licensing Activities (GAO/RCED-91-80; Apr. 3, 1991). 2AUTM is a nonprofit organization formed to assist university technology administrators in the effective transfer of technology to the public.
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