"A wealth of scientific talent at American colleges and universities – talent responsible for the development of numerous innovative scientific breakthroughs each year – is going to waste as a result of bureaucratic redtape and illogical government regulations..."
- Senator Birch Bayh
Papers
SUPA/AUTM Role in Bayh/Dole Legislation
A Long, Hard Journey: From Bayh-Dole to the Federal Technology Transfer Act
The Bayh-Dole Act and Revisionism Redux
Universities, Inventors, and the Bayh-Dole Act
Statement Before NIH On Essential Inventions Petition Regarding Norvir
The Role of Federally-Funded University Research in the Patent System
Speech of Senator Birch Bayh to the Association of University Technology Managers
Swords into Plowshares: How Tech Transfer (unless we mess it up) Can Help Change the World
Quotes
"Ultimately, it is believed that these improvements in government patent policy will lead to greater productivity in the United States, provide new jobs for our citizens, create new economic growth, foster increased competition, make government research and development contracting more competitive, and stimulate a greater return on the billions of dollars spent each year by the government on its research and development programs."
—Senate Judiciary Committee Report, Dec. 12, 1979, on S.414, unanimously approved and reported to the Senate
"...the preponderance of the empirical evidence produced to date seems to suggest that, by vesting presumptive patent ownership in the recipients of federally funded genetic research, the Bayh-Dole Act is indeed achieving not only its statutory purpose but also the larger, constitutionally mandated requirement that the U.S. patent system "promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts."
—The Impact of the Bayh-Dole Act on Genetic Research and Development: Evaluating the Arguments and Empirical Evidence to Date
"For me, Bayh-Dole Act is the most important business legislature of the last century in the United States. And this is American Congress at its very best moment. It delivered through legislature and transformed the pace of innovation by providing a fluidic system that enhances U.S competitiveness."
—Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Nkpuhe- a revelation on Africa
Articles
Senator Birch Bayh on Bayh-Dole at 30
Lessons from Bayh Dole Act and its relevance to India
SUPA/AUTM Role in Bayh/Dole Legislation
The building of biotech / 25 years later, 1980 Bayh-Dole act honored as foundation of an industry
United States: Investing In University Spin-Out Companies
Key discoveries in biological research spawn an industry
Japan's novelty grace period solves the dilemma of 'publish and perish'
UCSD Receives $37M NIH Translational Science Research Grant
US: Decline in commercialising research
University research worth $187 billion over 12 years, group says
Thirty Years After Passage, Bayh-Dole Act Drives the Economy, Protects Public Health
Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 opened the doors for researchers to profit from inventions
Where to Find a Multimillion-Dollar Business Idea
University research helps USA compete
On implementing Technology Transfer Act of 2009
Universities That Turn Research Into Revenue
The Route From Research to Start-Up
Taiwan's hopes for a biotech revolution
Hospitals create fund to boost inventions
Hungarian Parliament expected to pass a new innovation law
Diverse biotech industry pumps millions into state, national economies
Managing protection of intellectual property at Inteum