Intellectual Property and Patents

Authors: Mazza, Anne-Marie ; National Research Council, Committee on Management of University Intellectual Property ; Merrill, Stephan A.
Publication Type: Report
Abstract: Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they sponsor. Before the Act, if gover...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13001

Authors: Sawyier, Fay ; Snapper, John W.
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses major findings from a conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology on intellectual property. Topics included intellectual property and emerging techn...
Year: 1985
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v5n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Shipp, Allan C. ; Korenman, Stanley G.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A newly hired postdoc wishes to take the materials from his research for his thesis with him to his new position, but his advisor will not allow him to do so, saying the project belongs to the lab....
Year: 1994
URL: http://www.research.umn.edu/ethics/pdf/OwnershipResearchMaterials.htm

Authors: Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the late 1990's, the Recording Industry Association of America undertook a major effort to combat copyright violations where individuals create and share MP3 files of their favorite sound recordings over the internet. In the fal...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/MP3%20on%20Campus.pdf

Authors: National Academy of Engineering, Online Ethics Center
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Engineers
Abstract: This essay provides suggestions on how to teach engineers about fair credit and intellectual property....
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/instructguides/18934/credit.aspx

Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Publication Type: Case Study
Secondary Title: Cases and Scenarios
Abstract: Original Role Play on Intellectual Property involving RSA Encryption. This role play was used in MIT's introductory computer science subject, the Structure and Integration of Computer Programs...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/Cases/mitroleplay.aspx

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Washington State Supreme Court recently ruled that the State's law mandating "full access to information concerning the conduct of government at every level" requires State universities to make public upon request research grant...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Public%20Grant%20Proposals.pdf

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1992 Homer Smith purchased a warehouse in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Several years earlier the former owner, an art enthusiast, had commissioned a large abstract sculpture of welded metal which was completed in the fall of...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Artist%20Rights%20Act.pdf

Authors: Easton, Thomas A.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This easy-to-read book is often used as a text in ethics courses and covers issues of emerging technologies and science. The book is set up in a debate style, where reading consist of the arguments of leading commentators and reflec...
Year: 2009

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Authors: Hoon, Peggy
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: The goal of this module is to present the major issues surrounding intellectual property (IP): rather than attempt to discuss all four types of IP, trademarks, trade secrets, patents and copyright, we will focus on copyright. Our Fa...
Year: 2000
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1299&context=esence&sei-redir=1#search=%22Intellectual%20Property-Copyright%20Scholarworks%22

Authors: Peterson, M. J.
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: Understanding the processes by which ideas and debates diffuse across countries is an important precursor to understanding several concepts and issues in international ethics. This teaching module, developed to be used in conjunctio...
Year: 2008
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=edethicsinscience

Authors: Peterson, M. J.
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: This teaching module, developed to be used in conjunction was case studies developed through the International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering project, looks a...
Year: 2008
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=edethicsinscience

Authors: Ogbogu, Ubaka ; Caulfield, Timothy
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This article reviews a range of issues associated with the commercialization of biomedical research and speculates on how these issues might apply to the neuroscience context. The authors explore normative benchmarks for assessing a...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1080/08989620802388788

Authors: Council on Governmental Relations
Publication Type: Guidelines & Regulations
Abstract: This brochure attempts to provide relevant information about the transfer of materials and intellectual property in academe. It seeks to answer twenty frequently asked questions about the transfer of materials and research tools in ...
Year: 2003
URL: http://www.orpc.unh.edu/MTA/cogrbrochure.pdf

Authors: Stevens, Ann R.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: NACUA, the publication series; Variation: Publication series (National Association of College and University Attorneys (U.S.))
Abstract: The purpose of this pamphlet is to clarify the issues pertaining to ownership of research data. It examines legal issues on data management for colleges and universities and suggests ways to better articulate statements regarding da...
Year: 1997

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Authors: Laughlin, Robert B.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Physics Today
Abstract: Discusses the issues dealing with misconduct among scientists in order to gain economic advantage from patents and discoveries. Emphasis on research linked to property; Fabrication of data by scientists; Disadvantage of ownership to...
Year: 2002
URL: ftp://large.stanford.edu/publications/2002/p01jul02/p01jul02.pdf

Authors: Harvey, Francis ; DiBiase, David ; Wright, Dawn
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A volunteer organization GISCorps,is working with a number of other organizations to help create maps of an area devastated by a tsunami. A company has donated a number of licenses of its product for use by local authorities, but du...
Year: 2008
URL: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/esence/279/

Authors: Wright, Dawn ; Harvey, Francis ; DiBiase, David
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In the 1990's the County of Santa Clara, California signed an agreement with a private contractor to digitize the County's existing print parcel maps. The agreement signed by the County and the independent contractor agreed to spli...
Year: 2008
URL: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/files/sites/file/data_access_case(4).pdf

Authors: Depass, Donald ; Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In March 2005, Ethiopia filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offi ce to trademark the names of Yirgacheffe, Harrar and Sidamo, three coffee producing regions within the country. In doing so, the Ethiopian government hoped to fo...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/CaseStudies/Starbucks.pdf

Authors: Douglas, David M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Software ownership allows the owner to restrict the distribution of software and to prevent others from reading the software’s source code and building upon it. However, free software is released to users under software licenses tha...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9224-4

Authors: Jacobs, Sue-Ellen ; American Anthropological Association
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Jerry Vaughn contracted with a federal agency to conduct a social impact assessment of proposed topographic changes in an aboriginal habitat in the far not region of North America. The contract contained no stipulations regarding ow...
Year: 2006
URL: http://www.aaanet.org/publications/pubs/fieldnotes.cfm

Authors: Weil, Vivian ; Snapper, John W.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: In recent years, scientific discoveries and new technologies - as well as new, intricate relationships among academic researchers, government, and private industry - have begun to pose a whole range of novel problems in intellectual...
Year: 1989

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Authors: Hess, David J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Examines the suppression and bias in the role of bacterial agents in cancer etiology. Suppression of the bacterial research tradition; Suppression incidents in the United States during the decades following World War II; Two forms o...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1080/08989629908573932

Authors: Bentwich, Miriam
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper offers a different pragmatic and patent-based approach to concerns regarding the negative effects of genetic-based patenting on advancing scientific research and providing adequate and accessible health care services. At ...
Year: 2012
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9257-3

Authors: Stromberg, Eric ; Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University ; Norman, Wayne ; Sheth, Romeen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: n 2002, Google unveiled its plan to make all the books in the great libraries of the world available to anyone, anywhere with an Internet connection. To some, this was a grand liberating vision, unlocking the knowledge of humankind ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.duke.edu/web/kenanethics/CaseStudies/GoogleBooks.pdf