Academic experts and industry leaders from UC Davis and around the world will meet to address one of today’s most pressing legal and economic questions: How can intellectual property rights and patent law best be used to maximize the economic and social benefits from taxpayer-funded scientific research? The event, titled “Bayh-Dole @ 30: Mapping the Future of University Patenting” in reference to the 1980 federal legislation that assigned intellectual property rights for government-funded research discoveries, is jointly hosted by the new UC Davis Center for Science and Innovation Studies, UC Davis School of Law, the UC Davis Division of Social Sciences, and the UC Davis Science and Technology Studies Program.

The symposium will take place from Friday, April 29, to Saturday, April 30, at the UC Davis Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center and UC Davis School of Law’s Martin Luther King Jr. Hall.

Program details:

Friday, April 29

AGR Room, UC Davis Alumni Center

2:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Welcome

Dean George R. Mangun, UC Davis Division of Social Sciences

Dean Kevin R. Johnson, UC Davis School of Law

2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.: Dan Burk (UC Irvine): "Is University Patenting Technology-Specific?"

Comment: Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley) and Mario Biagioli (UC Davis)

Response: Mark Lemley (Stanford)

4:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.: Alan Bennett (UC Davis): "Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest"; and Shubha Ghosh (University of Wisconsin): "Exporting Bayh-Dole: Identifying the Institutional Connections in Patent Commercialization"

Comment: Anupam Chander (UC Davis)

5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.: Reception and book party: Alain Pottage and Brad Sherman: "Figures of Invention" (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Saturday, April 30

Room 1001, UC Davis King Hall

9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Arti Rai (Duke): "Accountability and Government Rights: Agency Implementation of the Bayh-Dole"; and Martin Kenney (UC Davis): "Bayh-Dole and Entrepreneurship Reconsidered: University versus Inventor Ownership"

Comment: Keith Aoki (UC Davis)

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Peter Lee (UC Davis): "Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Markets, Relationships, and Organizations in Technology Transfer"; David Winickoff (UC Berkeley): "Bayh-Dole, Research Tools, and the Scientific Enterprise"; and Brian Kahin (CCIA, Harvard): "Working Knowledge: The University Envisions Innovation"

Comment: Andrew Hargadon (UC Davis)

12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Lunch

1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Brad Sherman (Griffith University, Brisbane): "The Patenting of University-Based Research in Australia"; and Tim Lenoir (Duke): "Federal Funding and Innovations in Bionanotechnology: U.S.-China Comparisons"

Comment: Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis)

3:30 p.m.-5 p.m.: Alain Pottage (London School of Economics): "Synthetic Biology: Reconstructing the Public in the Wake of Bayh-Dole" and “The Digital Commons and Bayh-Dole"

Comment: Joseph Dumit (UC Davis)

5 p.m.-5:15 p.m.: Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley): Concluding remarks

More information on the speakers is available online from the UC Davis Center for Innovations Studies website at http://innovation.ucdavis.edu.

The Bayh-Dole Act was enacted by Congress in 1980; it assigned intellectual property control to universities, businesses and nonprofits for discoveries arising from government-funded research. Prior to Bayh-Dole, control would have belonged to the government. The act figures prominently in numerous high-profile legal battles over intellectual property and patents, including the current U.S. Supreme Court case Stanford v. Roche, a dispute over Stanford University’s intellectual property rights to federally funded drug research.

The Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center is located on the east side of Mrak Hall Drive across from the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. The School of Law is about one block north of the Mondavi Center on the west side of Mrak Hall Drive.

Media may park at no cost in any regular parking space, but must place a media business card on the driver's side dash to avoid getting a parking ticket. Freelance journalists without a business card should call (530) 754-7173 in advance to make parking arrangements.