Removing Obstacles on Joint Research

Mark_Uplanguage writes "The New York Times is reporting that a conglomeration of 7 universities and 4 industry partners have agreed to open up software created out of industry funding. From the article: 'The tone was set, Ms. Mitchell said, by the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which allowed universities to hold the patents on federally funded research and to license that intellectual property to industry [...]The guidelines and framework for the agreement will [be] posted this week at www.ibm.com/university, and at the Kauffman foundation's site, www.kauffman.org.' It's nice to see people sharing again."

Comments

Scam

[pete-classic]

Can someone please explain to me any way in which this is not a big rip-off of the American taxpayer?

Also, is there some reason that this doesn't story doesn't link to an article somewhere?

-Peter

Proof patents are harmfull

[argoff]

This is proof that patents hinder collaberation in a way that causes more harm than good, rather than incentivize creation as is the party line.