Richard J. Sexton wrote:
>
> Most NSF priograms for new technology funded it on the premise that the
> contractor must find a way to be self supporting after a while. The idea
> was to make a business out of whatever they were doing under a grant.
Actually, most funding is to universities and other non-profit institutions where a
requirement is that the results are published freely so that the benefits of the
research are available to all. Outside of reseach under constraints of national
security, any assertion of proprietary rights is subject to the detailed public
interest protections of the Bayh-Dole bill.
Diane Cabell
http://wwww.mama-tech.com
Fausett, Gaeta & Lund, LLP
Boston, MA
