Re: [IFWP] Re: Hilights from today's hearing

[Richard J. Sexton]

At 12:18 AM 7/24/99 -0700, you wrote:
>At 10:00 PM 7/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>As a former university patent manager I am quite familiar with Bayh - Dole,
>and with the philosophy underlying it.  The purpose of granting IP rights to 
>the research institute was to help ensure that the federal money was well
>spent, i.e., by the research results becoming commercialized through 
>university licensing to private companies instead of having the USG just 
>set them on a shelf.

Right. There's a problem though. In the early 80's I worked on
NASTRAN - it's a finite element analysis program that you go buy
a couple of Convex or Cray computers to run. It's a big mother.

It was the result of a government research programmer. When it
was done, or mostly done, a bunch of companies grabbed a copy
kept working on it and sold it.

You can't do that with a domain database. Only one entity
can manage it.


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