WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 15, 2024) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) recently issued a request for comments "on ways to accelerate and incentivize the commercialization of innovation, including green, critical, and emerging technologies." Joseph P. Allen, Executive Director of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, released the following statement on the request:...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 10, 2024) – Several activist groups recently sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), urging the agency to use its authority under 35 U.S.C. § 202(c)(4) and 28 U.S.C. § 1498 to disregard patent protections...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 17, 2024) -- The Biden administration may soon endorse a proposal before the World Trade Organization (WTO) that would suspend patent protections on Covid-19 treatments and tests and, in doing so, thwart existing WTO standards. This move would be enormously unpopular with American voters, according to a new poll released today by the Bayh-Dole Coalition....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 7, 2023) -- Today, the Biden administration's Interagency Working Group for Bayh-Dole concluded its review of the federal government's march-in authority under the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act....
Washington, D.C. (November 27, 2023) -- Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition opened nominations for its 2024 Bayh-Dole Coalition American Innovator Award. Recent recipients include a 2023 Nobel Prize laureate, a battery technology expert, and other innovation trailblazers....
Washington, D.C. (October 17, 2023) -- Today, the U.S. International Trade Commission released its fact-finding report on the implications of a World Trade Organization proposal to waive intellectual property protections on Covid-19 diagnostics and therapeutics....
WASHINGTON (October 2, 2023) -- Today, Bayh-Dole Coalition American Innovator Award recipient Dr. Katalin Karikó and fellow researcher Dr. Drew Weissman were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on mRNA, which underpinned the development of the Covid-19 vaccines....
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 27, 2023) -- An overwhelming majority of Americans want to preserve the Bayh-Dole Act -- the 1980 law that laid the foundation for America's world-leading, innovation-driven economy -- in its current form, according to a poll released today by the Bayh-Dole Coalition....
Washington, D.C. (September 13, 2023) -- Today, five of the world's leading innovators -- including Katalin Karikó, the University of Pennsylvania biochemist who helped develop the mRNA technology behind the Covid-19 vaccines, and Dennis Liotta, the Emory chemist who helped transform HIV from a death sentence into a manageable illness -- will receive the inaugural Bayh-Dole Coalition American Innovator Award....
Washington, D.C. (August 16, 2023) - Today, the Bayh-Dole Coalition released "Faces of American Innovation," a report highlighting five inspirational people whose work to transform early-stage discoveries into commercial products improved the lives of millions....