Patenting University Research Has Been A Dismal Failure, Enabling Patent Trolling. It's Time To Stop

Posted by BernardSwiss on Dec 4, 2013 6:50 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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For many years we've been incredibly critical of the famous Bayh-Dole Act, which was passed in 1980 with the idea that it would encourage greater innovation by pushing universities to patent the research they were doing. The theory -- based on a rather ignorant view of innovation and research -- was that patents would create a market, which, in turn, would enable easier knowledge transfer from academia to industry, leading to a research boom. The actual results have been a near total disaster. What's actually happened are two very bad things.

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