Rob Sahr on the Administration’s Aggressive Approach to Bayh-Dole Compliance
The Biden-Harris Administration recently announced various actions to lower healthcare and prescription drug costs. In one action, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released in December 2023 a draft...more
Organizations that receive federal funds or that license technology from third parties that receive Federal funds need to be aware of Federal funding obligations under the Bayh-Dole Act. Any invention conceived or reduced to...more
Federal grants are an important source of funding for many businesses and research institutions. The Bayh-Dole framework provides contractors the ability to retain title to an invention developed using federal funding, but...more
On May 14, 2018, several important revisions to regulations of the Bayh-Dole Act (University and Small Business Patent Procedure Act of 1980, codified as 35 U.S.C. § 200) went into effect. The final revisions were published...more