WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 19, 2026) -- This week, the House of Representatives followed the Senate in voting to pass the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act, which reauthorizes the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs through 2031. Joseph P. Allen, executive director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, issued the following statement in response...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 10, 2025) -- Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition announced that Laura A. Peter has joined its Advisory Council. Laura Peter currently serves as the executive director for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She previously served as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she helped guide national intellectual property policy and operations....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 8, 2025) -- Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition released survey results showing near-unanimous opposition to Secretary Lutnick's royalty-sharing proposal. Respondents warned the proposal would undermine the innovation system that has powered U.S. leadership in science and technology for 45 years....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 23, 2025) -- Following John Squires' confirmation last week as the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Bayh-Dole Coalition released a statement: "The Bayh-Dole Coalition would like to extend its congratulations to Director Squires on his confirmation as the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 10, 2025) -- Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition released a statement responding to Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's concern that taxpayers receive little return on university research investments and so the federal government should receive a share of the revenue from successful inventions...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 11, 2025) -- This morning, the Bayh-Dole Coalition released the following statement regarding the Department of Commerce's investigation of Harvard's compliance with the Bayh-Dole Act....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 12, 2025) -- Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition released its 2025 "Faces of American Innovation" report. Now in its third year, the report honors five outstanding individuals whose work transforming early-stage research into real-world products has improved countless lives around the world....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 25, 2025) -- Executive Director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition Joseph P. Allen released the following statement to commemorate World Intellectual Property Day...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 24, 2025) -- Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition sent a letter to White House Office of Management and Budget Director, Russell Vought, calling attention to unlawful agency-level initiatives that undermine federal law and threaten American innovation....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 4, 2025) -- Yesterday, the Bayh-Dole Coalition sent a letter to President Trump thanking him for tasking Michael Kratsios, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, with revisiting the vision set forth in Dr. Vannevar Bush's landmark 1945 report, Science: The Endless Frontier....