ABSTRACT
As a scientist or engineer in an academic setting, especially if you have any entrepreneurial proclivities, it is important to understand the relevant law that dictates what will happen to the products of your research. In particular, what will happen to your research if you wish to move it out of the public or nonprofit academic setting and toward privatized commercialization? –roughout this book, we have been discussing how to protect your ideas from a variety of angles. –is chapter will expand upon this knowledge, primarily in the area of the University and Small Patent Procedure Act (“Bayh-Dole Act”). –e Bayh-Dole Act* affects the commercialization of university technology so expansively that it is also known to many intellectual property professionals as “–e Patent Law of Universities.”
