For the last thirty years, the Bayh-Dole Act has framed the relationship between US universities ad industry, promoting the flow of publicly-funded research toward private-sector development. In doing so it has also fostered, or at least epitomized, the university’s turn to intensive intellectual property production, protection, and licensing. It has been both hailed as a much-needed modernization of ivory tower culture and attacked for its corrupting effects on the university’s commitment to open knowledge. Our conference moves beyond predictable ideological pronouncements to discuss the complex empirical evidence about the success and shortcomings of Bayh-Dole, and the equally complex challenge of how to define “success” and “shortcoming” in the context of the university’s mission.
PROGRAM:
FRIDAY, April 29
(Buelher Alumni & Visitors Center, AGR Room)
2:15–2:30
Welcome
Dean Ron Mangun, UC Davis Division of Social Sciences
Dear Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law
2:30–4:00
Is University Patenting Technology-Specific?
Speaker: Dan Burk (UC Irvine)
Comments: Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley); Mario Biagioli (UC Davis)
Response: Mark Lemley (Stanford)
4:15–5:45
Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
Speaker: Alan Bennett (UC Davis)
Exporting Bayh-Dole: Identifying the Institutional Connections in Patent Commercialization
Speaker: Shubha Ghosh (U Wisconsin, Madison)
Comment: Anupam Chander (UC Davis)
5:45-6:45
Reception and Book Party
Alain Pottage & Brad Sherman, Figures of Invention, Oxford University Press, 2010
SATURDAY April 30
(King Hall 1001, Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom)
9:00–10:30
Accountability and Government Rights: Agency Implementation of the Bayh-Dole
Speaker: Arti Rai (Duke)
Bayh-Dole and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered: University Versus Inventor Ownership
Speaker: Martin Kenney (UC Davis)
Comment: Keith Aoki (UC Davis)
10:45-12:15
Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Markets, Relationships, and Organizations in Technology Transfer
Speaker: Peter Lee (UC Davis)
Bayh-Dole, Research Tools, and the Scientific Enterprise
Speaker: David Winickoff (UC Berkeley)
Working Knowledge: The University Envisions Innovation
Spaker: Brian Kahin (CCIA/Harvard)
Comment: Andrew Hargadon (UC Davis)
1:45–3:15
The Patenting of University-Based Research in Australia
Speaker: Brad Sherman (Griffith University, Brisbane)
Federal Funding and Innovations in Bionanotechnology: US-China Comparisons
Speaker: Tim Lenoir (Duke)
Comment: Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis)
3:30–5:00
Synthetic biology: Reconstructing the Public in the Wake of Bayh-Dole
Speaker: Alain Pottage (London School of Economics)
The Digital Commons and Bayh-Dole
Speaker: John Wilbanks (Creative Commons)
Comment: Joseph Dumit (UC Davis)
5:00–5:15
Concluding Remarks
Speaker: Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley)
REGISTRATION IS FREE BUT SPACE IS LIMITED. Please reserve your seat by following this link: www.tinyurl.com/BayhDole30.
Information about the event including directions can be found at innovation.ucdavis.edu/events/bayh-dole-30-mapping-the-future-of-university-patenting. If you have other questions or require assistance please email Charles Adelsheim.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Science & Innovation Studies, UC Davis Division of Social Sciences, UC Davis School of Law, King Hall Annual Fund, Science and Technology Studies Program.
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