It’s funny how seemingly unconnected things come together sometimes. A recent example for me was being interviewed by China Central TV (CCTV) on the Bayh-Dole Act a couple of days after stumbling on an article on the attempt by their government to foster innovation while cracking down on political dissent. While it’s easy for us to look askance at that proposition, we may be about to launch an equally quixotic experiment of our own: seeing if American innovation can survive the undermining of our patent system.
