A room full of congressional staff, industry and academic reps and policy experts joined Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund Oct. 18 to learn about technology transfer.
The event, titled “Benefiting from Federal Research Funding: Technology Transfer, the Bayh-Dole Act, Patent Rights, and Society,” discussed how the bipartisan Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 has opened up commercialization of inventions from federal funded basic research, thanks to the law’s letting universities own the patents to their inventions.
Image: Joe Allen (at podium) with Jim Edwards (seated) looking on. Allen, featured columnist on IPWatchdog, was Senator Bayh’s Staffer assigned to work Bayh-Dole and help usher it across the finish line in 1980. - https://www.ipwatchdog.com
