A post from Brookings investigates the role of universities as plaintiffs in patent infringement suits: Patent infringement suits have a reputational cost for universities .Yes, WARF did come up, although the long history of WARF and patents was omitted. Thus, the post noted:This is not the first time this university has asserted its patents rights (UW sued Intel in 2008 for this exact same patent and reportedly settled for $110 million).There was no mention of the stem cell cases, or the much earlier margarine business.The post brings up a Bayh-Dole hypothetical:What if the text of Bayh-Dole had been originally composed to grant a conditional right to patents for federal research grantees? The condition could be stated like this: “This policy seeks to promote the commercialization of federally funded research and to this end it will use the patent system. Grantees may take title to patents if and only if other mechanisms for disseminating and developing those…
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