Welcome to the Bayh-Dole Bulletin, a monthly newsletter from the Bayh-Dole Coalition. The Bayh-Dole Coalition is a diverse group of innovation-oriented organizations and individuals committed to celebrating and protecting the Bayh-Dole Act, as well as informing policymakers and the public of its many benefits.
Bayh-Dole Bulletin: Edition 7
About the Bayh-Dole Coalition
A Word From Our Executive Director
At long last, Election Day has come and gone. The results made it crystal clear that growing the economy and increasing opportunities for our workforce to grow is Issue #1. That gives us a unique opening to explain to the new Administration and Congress the critical role our Bayh-Dole innovation system plays in our domestic success and in confronting the challenge posed by rivals like China. We are already moving to take advantage of this opening. Our webinar on December 6, “Unleashing America’s Entrepreneurs: The Bayh-Dole Formula for Economic Prosperity,” is part of that campaign. Hope you can join us then!
November Coalition Highlights
- Article: InsideHealthPolicy, “Dems Call For Final March-In Rights Framework Before Trump Takes Over” (11/22)
- Podcast: Federal Newswire, “Lunch Hour Ep. 109 – Joe Allen” (11/12)
- Letter: Bayh-Dole Coalition Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee on PERA, PREVAIL, and IDEA (11/6)
- Op-ed: Steven Infanti, Patriot-News/PennLive.com, “Celebrating America’s innovators and defending the law behind them” (11/6)
- Highlight Reel: 2024 Faces of American Innovation Event Highlight Reel (10/31)
Upcoming Events & Coalition Priorities
The Bayh-Dole Coalition will be hosting a webinar on Friday, December 6, from 1-2 pm ET, to discuss how the Bayh-Dole Act plays a crucial role in bolstering the U.S. economy and our international competitiveness — as well as how the new Administration and Congress must maintain and defend this system.
You can register here. We encourage you to share this invitation far and wide with your networks.
Also, happy Thanksgiving! Is there an inventor, researcher, entrepreneur, or tech transfer professional you’re especially grateful for this week? If you have someone in mind, we’re still accepting nominations for our 2025 American Innovator Award! Nominate them here. Submissions close on Friday, January 31, 2025.
Member Corner
- The George Mason Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2) recently released the recordings from their 2024 Annual Fall Conference, including the Panel on March-In Rights featuring several longstanding IP experts.
Does your organization have an upcoming event? We’d love to feature it in our newsletter and events calendar! Submit the information here.
Member Spotlight
Our November member spotlight is the University of Maryland and its tech transfer office, UM Ventures. Since its inception, UM Ventures has launched over 160 startups and disclosed 5,500 inventions through the tech transfer system. The Bayh-Dole Coalition is fortunate to have UMD and UM Ventures as members and advocates of the Bayh-Dole Act.
“As The Economist has noted, the Bayh-Dole Act is ‘possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half-century.’ A prime example of academic research translation and a technology of the future, which is rapidly approaching, is the quantum computing industry. Anchored by academic research conducted at the University of Maryland, College Park is home to about one-fifth of the world’s quantum computing capacity. The Bayh-Dole Act, which enabled economic growth around the country, from biotech hubs like Boston and San Diego to software meccas like Seattle and Silicon Valley, is now catalyzing the new ‘Capital of Quantum’ in College Park. UMD is a proud member of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, and we offer much gratitude for the Coalition’s unwavering support of the Bayh-Dole Act.” — Ken Porter, Director, UM Ventures – College Park
