WARF public affairs analyst says university researchers may become ‘collateral damage’ under proposal.
Democratic members of the U.S. Congress are leading an effort to change the way federal agencies enforce the Bayh-Dole Act. This 1980 law allows recipients of merit-based federal funding, including research universities like the University of Wisconsin, to patent inventions that may then be licensed to private companies.
Concerns with the existing act revolve around the implementation of march-in rights. This refers to the ability for agencies to either reassign patent licenses to other companies or to take control of it themselves, according to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation public affairs analyst Kevin Walters.
Read more here: https://badgerherald.com/news/wisconsin/2024/03/22/proposed-changes-to-bayh-dole-act-stir-controversy-over-innovation-economic-impact/