Re: FAR guru's needed! Herbert B. Chermside 22 Feb 2000 17:24 EST
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 >**************************************** >Rosemary K. Alexander >Assistant Director, Office of Research Administration >Case Western Reserve University >10900 Euclid Avenue >Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7015 > >xxxxxx@po.cwru.edu >Phone: 216-368-2008 >Fax: 216-368-4679 > > >====================================================================== > Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including > subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available > via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") >====================================================================== > Herbert B. Chermside, CRA Director, Sponsored Programs Administration Virginia Commonwealth University PO BOX 980568 Richmond, VA 23298-0568 Express Delivery Only: Sanger Hall, Rm. 1-073 11th & Marshall Streets Richmond, VA 23219 Voice: 804-828-6772 Fax 804-828-2521 OFFICE e-mail xxxxxx@VCU.EDU Personal e-mail xxxxxx@vcu.edu http://views.vcu.edu/ospa/ ====================================================================== Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists") ======================================================================