FAR clause 52.227-11 and DFAR 252.227-7039 for contracts
containing FAR clause 52.227-11, REQUIRE your commercial sponsor to give
you the patent rights specified at 37CFR 401. I think Steve Erickson has a
good analysis of how they got where they did. I suggest you point out to
them that 52.227.11 specifies exactly what rights you have and that they
MUST give you those rights if they do not have a variance from their
Contracting Officer.
Then you can negotiate with them, if you want to, the price of a license to
the company for any rights you can be persuaded to license to them.
I don't mean to sound like a mean old grouch -- but Bayh-Dole WAS enacted
in part to find a way to get rewards to Universities for being/keeping an
environment that fosters innovation, and I hate to see commercial entities
trying to gobble up all the rewards. They could have elected to sub- to a
commercial concern rather than to a University, paid more, maybe gotten
less innovativeness, and kept all the rights.
Chuck
At 06:21 PM 2/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear FAR / DEAR guru's,
>
>I would appreciate your help and further ask that if you know of some other
>listserv where my question is most likely to find a definitive answer,
>please forward this posting to that listserv. (In fact, please also share
>with me other listservs to which I should be subscribed.)
>
>I have a subcontract I am negotiating with an independent nonprofit
>organization (non-university), "WXYZ", who has a R and D subsidiary. WXYZ
>received a DOE contract and wishes to subcontract to our university a
>portion of the work. Portions of our work are potentially patentable. Not
>surprisingly, the subcontract contains a thick general provisions section of
>the flow-through clauses. Company WXYZ has incorporated and amended these
>clauses by substituting "WXYZ" for, or adding "and WXYZ" to, the words
>"government", "contracting officer", "patent counsel" and "DOE" (depending
>upon the specific clause). Specifically of concern to CWRU are the
>incorporated clauses dealing with patent rights and rights in data (DEAR
>952.227-11, FAR 52.227-14, FAR 52.227-17, FAR 52.227-23 and FAR 52.227-23).
>
>CWRU has no problem giving the government its rights as dictated by
>Bayh-Dole, but we have a problem giving up rights not apparantly specified
>by Bayh-Dole. In addition, it seems that substituting "WXYZ" for
>"government" takes away rights from the government as well.
>
>I have two questions:
>
>1. Where in FAR and / or DEAR are the rights to make these substitutions
>given to these companies?
>
>2. How have other universities dealt with these clauses?
>
>Thanks so much for your help.
>
>Rosemary
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