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Supreme Court will not Hear Challenge to First to File Provision

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Jeffrey Waldin |

In the Order List published February 23 from the Supreme Court was notice that certiorari was denied in 14-366 Madstad Engineering, Inc V. Patent and Trademark, et al. Madstad Engineering was appealing prior decisions from the Middle District of Florida…

Developing an Industry of Research around the Research Industry

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Jeffrey Waldin |

I understand that many couples, when they are thinking about starting a family, become acutely aware of children all around them. Perhaps it is also true that many sponsored research offices, when they are asked to justify the benefits of…

Albany Law School’s inaugural Startup Law Day

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Jeffrey Waldin |

In the spirit of encouraging entrepreneurship, the Government Law Center at Albany Law School is organizing a day-long event that will offer free legal workshops and free legal consultations to Capital Region entrepreneurs. The event will be held September 12,…

Nothing Attracts Our Attention Like Blood

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Jeffrey Waldin |

Several recent articles called my attention to a story out of the United Kingdom. Just over 30 years ago, a researcher named Ian Shanks produced a report on “new opportunities offered by product sensors” including “monitoring glucose, insulin or immunoglobulin…

SRA Themed Meeting : Managing the Legal and Regulatory Research Landscape

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Jeffrey Waldin |

SRA is hosting a three track themed meeting to provide focused content on three areas of research administration. I will be presenting at one of the tracks, designed to show how Technology Transfer is integrated throughout a research project, and…

House of Cards – Bad for the Greater Good?

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Jeffrey Waldin |

I have spent more than half of my professional career, which is now closing out a second decade, emphasizing the importance of academic technology transfer. You might assume then, that I welcome the ideas put forward in a recent edition…

A Ghost Story of Research Administration with Some Text by Charles Dickens

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Jeffrey Waldin |

There is no doubt that Denver, Colorado lies within the United States. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that this capital city…

Your Mission – Should You Choose to Accept It

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Jeffrey Waldin |

A recent story in The Chronicle of Higher Education covered the complex relationship between academic research institutions and companies that purchase patent rights, but do not actually produce products. Known variously as “non practicing entities” and “patent trolls” these companies…

Jon Stewart is not quite “Roundup Ready” when it comes to Intellectual Property Law

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Jeffrey Waldin |

I usually appreciate how Jon Stewart and the staff at The Daily Show carefully “cultivate” and “harvest” their subjects. There is something that appeals to my sense of integrity when bad behavior is “weeded” out, and his commentary is subversively…

Information Breach – Beware the Photocopier Hard Drive

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Jeffrey Waldin |

One health plan provider learned an expensive lesson. Affinity Health Plan, Inc. returned multiple photocopiers to leasing agents without erasing the data contained on the copier hard drives. As a result, the private health information of up to 344,579 individuals…