Category Archives: Law

The Aftermath of Stanford v. Roche: Which Law of Assignments Governs?

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Sean O'Connor

Today, I’m reposting part two of the posts I wrote for the IPilogue on Stanford v. Roche. Yesterday, I posted a summary of the background issues involved in the United States Supreme Court case of Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University … Continue reading →

Categories: Commercial/Contract Law, Commercialization, Entrepreneurship, Intellectual Property, Law, Science, Technology, Technology Entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer, University to Industry

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Stanford v. Roche: A Case Study on Academic Inventors, Federal Funding, and the Bayh-Dole Act

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Sean O'Connor

Today I want to start introducing some more in-depth legal discussion on this blog. Below is a reposting of the first part of a post I did for the IPilogue blog hosted by IP Osgoode at Osgoode Law School (York … Continue reading →

Categories: Commercial/Contract Law, Commercialization, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Law, Science, Technology, Technology Entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer, University to Industry

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Continuing YouTube Saga

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Sean O'Connor

My sad YouTube saga continues . . . I duly disputed the muting of my music copyright video but of course have heard nothing back (as many of my IP professor colleagues from around the country predicted). The status of … Continue reading →

Categories: Art, Commerce, Commercialization, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Fine Arts, Intellectual Property, Law

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Year 6 of Entrepreneurial Law Clinic

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Sean O'Connor

We are off to another great year at the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law! ELC was itself an entrepreneurial venture in that I developed with no money, space, or time off from my regular … Continue reading →

Categories: Commerce, Commercialization, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Law, Microenterprise & Small Business, Nonprofit & Social Entrepreneurship, Technology, Technology Entrepreneurship, Technology Transfer, University to Industry

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YouTube ContentID System

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Sean O'Connor

The irony of an IP prof’s video presentation on “What Composers and Copyright Owners Can Teach Other” being flagged and muted for copyright infringement . . . In my last post, I embedded video from a presentation I did in … Continue reading →

Categories: Art, Creativity, Fine Arts, Intellectual Property, Law

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