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- Title: Patents and University-Industry Interactions in Pharmaceutical Research Before 1962: an Investigation of the Historical Justifications for Bayh-Dole
- Author : The Journal of High Technology Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 173 KB
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I. Introduction The relationship between academic research and research and development within the pharmaceutical industry has been the focus of recent debates over the justification for the Bayh-Dole Act. (1) This relationship served as a critical prism through which many scholars argued for federal patent policy reform. (2) Supporters and opponents of patent reform, ultimately codified in the Bayh-Dole Act, presented diametrically opposed views regarding the impact of the patent policies implemented by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in the late 1960s. (3) The Bayh-Dole Act was the embodiment of arguments promulgated by patent reform promoters who asserted that citizens would ultimately lose the benefits of federal funding of biomedical research in the absence of policies facilitating collaboration between academic scientists and pharmaceutical firms. (4) This collaboration would only be possible if the government protected industrial companies' exclusive rights to any inventions resulting from federally funded research. (5)