Bloomberg BNA Publishes 2012 Cumulative Supplement to “Intellectual Property Technology Transfer”

Bloomberg BNA has published the 2012 Cumulative Supplement to Intellectual Property Technology Transfer, a treatise that provides the legal framework for the licensing and research transactions between industry and federally and privately funded research laboratories regarding technology development and transfer, and associated intellectual property (IP) rights.  

The treatise provides analysis on national security and export controls on technologies; elimination of the research exemption from IP infringement for universities, and the associated impact on industry-sponsored university research; and recent developments in the federal government’s march-in rights and the extent of federal authority over technologies resulting from federally funded research. It also offers review of new entrepreneurial models for transferring technology into the marketplace; analysis of laws governing the ownership of intellectual property developed at universities; and international technology transfer. 

The 2012 Cumulative Supplement explores one of the most closely watched cases since the Bayh-Dole Act was enacted, Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems, concluding that the Act preserved the stability of established legal doctrines in patent and contract law. The supplement also analyzes: 

• A private sector collaborator that successfully enforced the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) provisions to protect its proprietary information in a federally-funded research collaboration 
• Emerging areas concerning university “duty” in the administration of intellectual property developed by its employee-inventors 
• The history and use of compulsory licensing in Canada 
• Universities’ creative approaches to technology commercialization through focused efforts to support faculty innovation and entrepreneurship 

Intellectual Property Technology Transfer, with 2012 Cumulative Supplement is edited by Aline C. Flower, the associate General Counsel for Global Development with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bainbridge Island, WA.; and Wesley D. Blakeslee, the Executive Director of Technology Transfer at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. This treatise is available for sale directly from Bloomberg BNA and is also available on the Bloomberg Law legal research system.