U.S. warning on use of 'march-in' rights against Harvard seems like distant threat for pharma

Trump Threatens Bayh‑Dole March‑In To Punish Harvard—After Refusing It For COVID

For years we’ve talked about the serious problems of the Bayh-Dole Act, which encouraged universities to patent every damn idea that anyone associated with the university came up with in the hopes of “commercializing” it. In practice this has been a total disaster. Universities locked up a ton of (often publicly funded) research behind “patents”…

U.S. warning on use of 'march-in' rights against Harvard seems like distant threat for pharma

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's threat of march-in rights against Harvard University has put renewed focus on the Bayh-Dole Act.