Events
Monthly luncheon meetings for CincyIP are held on the second Tuesday of each month from 11:45-1:30. Additional meetings will be scheduled pending interest and speaker availability.
Date: Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Event: Advanced FAR/DFAR meeting
Speaker: Robert (Bob) Hardy, Director, Contracts and Intellectual Property Management, Council on Government Relations (COGR).
Robert B. Hardy is Director of Contracts and Intellectual Property Management at the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR; (www.cogr.edu)), an association of 175 research universities and several affiliated hospitals and research institutes. COGR focuses on the impact of government policies and regulations on university research. Mr. Hardy has lead COGR responsibility for university issues pertaining to federal contracting and technology transfer policies and regulations.
Many university administrators and technology transfer officers are familiar with the federal rules relating to managing inventions and patents that have been developed in the performance of federally funded research. The Bayh-Dole Act (35 USC Section 200—212) provides a uniform federal regime for rights to inventions under federally funded awards. Unlike rights to inventions, there is no controlling statutory authority for rights to technical data and computer software. In fact, the federal data rules and regulations are inconsistent with the government’s approach to invention rights under Bayh-Dole. There is a particularly anomalous situation with regard to computer software. The federal rules treat computer software as technical data, and do not reflect the current legal situation with regard to the patentability of computer software.
In addition to their complexity, the rules often require an institution to take specific steps to retain the maximum rights to data and software developed under federally sponsored projects. Different federal agencies have different regulations and the same agency may have different regulations depending on what type of funding document it issues. A grant or a contract from the same agency may differ in the rules and regulations for the appropriate management, retention of rights, and use of data and software developed under the award.
It is important that research administrators and technology transfer practitioners be familiar with the application of a federal agency’s rights in data, technical data, computer software, and copyrights. These rights should be discussed with principal investigators before a response to a federal procurement solicitation or an unsolicited proposal is sent to a federal agency because it is important to identify and protect the rights of the institution and the faculty at the proposal stage. Copyright and license rights to copyrighted material developed under a federally sponsored project are important to the government, to the public’s right to use federally funded research, to authors, and to universities.
Guest Organization: Local Chapter for NCMA (National Contract Managers Association)
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Event: Controlling/harvesting open innovation
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Event: WIPO/International PCT
Time: 11:45am
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Event: Drafting License Agreements in View of Recent Supreme Court Decisions (KSR and MedImmune)
Download Presentation: DRAFTING LICENSE AGREEMENTS IN VIEW OF RECENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.ppt
Time: 11:45-1:30
Speaker: Mark Levy of Thompson Hine
Location: Thompson Hine - 312 Walnut Street - 10th Floor - Cincinnati, Ohio - 45202-4089 - 513.352.6700
CLE Credit: 1 Hour approved by Ohio CCLE.
Cost: $10 members/students prepaid via website, $15 non-members or at the door.