IP: more on Microsoft Buys .NET Presence at Canadian University

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>
Organization: Real Measures
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:42:29 -0400
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu



Dave:

Trying to stop exactly this sort of State Freedom of
Information Act proceeding is what Leahy's Senate Bill
S-2031 (The "Intellectual Property Protection Restoration
Act") is all about.  S-2031 is specifically designed to
buttress the Federal Bayh-Dole Act (passed in 1980) against
the sovereignty of the States.

Bayh-Dole authorized State Universities receiving Federal
funding to enter into highly lucrative private contracts
with big-time "IP" stakeholders such as pharmaceuticals and
software companies, in which those companies could obtain
ownership of the fruits of the schools' publicly-funded
research.  
Worse, the details of the deals they broker are sealed from
public scrutiny!

Seth Johnson

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