Academic experts and industry leaders from 51吃瓜黑料 Davis and around the world will meet to address one of today鈥檚 most pressing legal and economic questions: How can intellectual property rights and patent law best be used to maximize the economic and social benefits from taxpayer-funded scientific research? The event, titled 鈥淏ayh-Dole @ 30: Mapping the Future of University Patenting鈥 in reference to the 1980 federal legislation that assigned intellectual property rights for government-funded research discoveries, is jointly hosted by the new 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Center for Science and Innovation Studies, 51吃瓜黑料 Davis School of Law, the 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Division of Social Sciences, and the 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Science and Technology Studies Program.
The symposium will take place from Friday, April 29, to Saturday, April 30, at the 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center and 51吃瓜黑料 Davis School of Law鈥檚 Martin Luther King Jr. Hall.
Program details:
Friday, April 29
AGR Room, 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Alumni Center
2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Welcome
Dean George R. Mangun, 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Division of Social Sciences
Dean Kevin R. Johnson, 51吃瓜黑料 Davis School of Law
2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.: Dan Burk (51吃瓜黑料 Irvine): "Is University Patenting Technology-Specific?"
Comment: Pamela Samuelson (51吃瓜黑料 Berkeley) and Mario Biagioli (51吃瓜黑料 Davis)
Response: Mark Lemley (Stanford)
4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.: Alan Bennett (51吃瓜黑料 Davis): "Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest"; and Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin): "Exporting Bayh-Dole: Identifying the Institutional Connections in Patent Commercialization"
Comment: Anupam Chander (51吃瓜黑料 Davis)
5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.: Reception and book party: Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman: "Figures of Invention" (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Saturday, April 30
Room 1001, 51吃瓜黑料 Davis King Hall
9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Arti Rai (Duke): "Accountability and Government Rights: Agency Implementation of the Bayh-Dole"; and Martin Kenney (51吃瓜黑料 Davis): "Bayh-Dole and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered: University versus Inventor Ownership"
Comment: Keith Aoki (51吃瓜黑料 Davis)
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Peter Lee (51吃瓜黑料 Davis): "Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Markets, Relationships, and Organizations in Technology Transfer"; David Winickoff (51吃瓜黑料 Berkeley): "Bayh-Dole, Research Tools, and the Scientific Enterprise"; and Brian Kahin (CCIA, Harvard): "Working Knowledge: The University Envisions Innovation"
Comment: Andrew Hargadon (51吃瓜黑料 Davis)
12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Brad Sherman (Griffith University, Brisbane): "The Patenting of University-Based Research in Australia"; and Tim Lenoir (Duke): "Federal Funding and Innovations in Bionanotechnology: U.S.-China Comparisons"
Comment: Madhavi Sunder (51吃瓜黑料 Davis)
3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.: Alain Pottage (London School of Economics): "Synthetic Biology: Reconstructing the Public in the Wake of Bayh-Dole" and 鈥淭he Digital Commons and Bayh-Dole"
Comment: Joseph Dumit (51吃瓜黑料 Davis)
5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.: Pamela Samuelson (51吃瓜黑料 Berkeley): Concluding remarks
More information on the speakers is available online from the 51吃瓜黑料 Davis Center for Innovations Studies website at .
The Bayh-Dole Act was enacted by Congress in 1980; it assigned intellectual property control to universities, businesses and nonprofits for discoveries arising from government-funded research. Prior to Bayh-Dole, control would have belonged to the government. The act figures prominently in numerous high-profile legal battles over intellectual property and patents, including the current U.S. Supreme Court case Stanford v. Roche, a dispute over Stanford University鈥檚 intellectual property rights to federally funded drug research.
The Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center is located on the east side of Mrak Hall Drive across from the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The School of Law is about one block north of the Mondavi Center on the west side of Mrak Hall Drive.
Media may park at no cost in any regular parking space, but must place a media business card on the driver's side dash to avoid getting a parking ticket. Freelance journalists without a business card should call (530) 754-7173 in advance to make parking arrangements.
Media Resources
Andy Fell, Research news (emphasis: biological and physical sciences, and engineering), 530-752-4533, ahfell@ucdavis.edu
Pamela Wu, 51吃瓜黑料 Davis School of Law, 530-754-7173, pcwu@ucdavis.edu