Licensing policy

Since 1950, the Federal Government has explicitly required Federal employees to report inventions created during the course of their work to the Federal Government (Executive Order 10096 15 FR 389). Beyond this requirement, however, there was no uniform patent and licensing policy for ail Federal agencies until 1980 when Congress passed the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act (Public Law 96-480). 

Software Dimensional Analysis Toolbox in MatLab, written by Steffen Bruckner, may be available free of cost for academic use. It may be obtained from http //www.sbrs.net/along with the usage instruction. The user is referred to the license policy prior to use. 

This license gave the Foundation an opportunity to use a patent and licensing policy first developed in 1947. This policy stated that the Foundation should own patents resulting from research work sponsored by it, should charge royalties for any license under any patent it owned, and should license any responsible applicant on a non-exclusive basis. The policy was thought to serve two purposes 1) to ensure that the results would be used to further the interests of the industry and to benefit the public, and 2) to obtain full exploitation of the discovery and give ample opportunity to demonstrate its usefulness in practice. 

Chaudhuri, S. (1986) Licensing Policies and Growth of Dmg TNCs in India, in A. S.Gupta (ed.). Drug Industry and the Indian People,. New Delhi and Patna Delhi... 

All [countries considered] have modem research facilities and well-trained scientists and engineers in the semiconductor field. Moreover, the nature of the technology makes industrial secrecy difficult to maintain, the major innovating firms follow liberal licensing policies. Competent semiconductor firms can normally duplicate new devices within six to twelve months. Thus, supply considerations, aside from demand-dependent learning economies, rarely delay diffusion in Europe and Japan at the producer level by more than a year the relevant constraint in these countries generally comes from the demand side. (Tilton 1971, p. 37). 

See e.g. Tilton (1971) for the licensing policy of Bell labs in their pioneering semiconductor research. 

Hinchchff, R., et al. Media framing of graduated licensing policy debates. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2010,42 1283—1287. 

Dr. Carlyn Muir is a research fellow at the Monash Injury Research Institute, which incorporates the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC). She is a psychologist whose doctoral research examined driver licensing policy for people following brain injury. She has been involved in the development and review of public health policy not only from a research perspective, but also through direct policy implementation within state health services. Dr. Muir s current research involves the design and implementation of a range of injury prevention and public health projects, with a focus on community health and safety, policy, and evaluation. She has published journal articles, book chapters, and government reports across the community safety space. 

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