Patents & Licensing
Patent policy and practice as it affects research: national IP office rule changes, licensing disputes and settlements, march-in and Bayh-Dole developments, and changes to the patent search and analytics platforms researchers depend on.
Coverage (12)
- PMAC Opens: What It Means for University TTOs
The UPC’s Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre opened in phases from May 12, 2026 — what it means for university patent-licensing and enforcement strategy.…
- Argentina INPI Resolution 38/2026 Explained
Argentina’s INPI Resolution 38/2026 simplifies technology transfer agreement registration under Law 22,426, easing tax-relevant filings for global licensors.…
- Nigeria’s NIPPS and University Tech Transfer
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council approved the National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy (NIPPS) on November 6, 2025, and the government launched implementation on December 17, 2025. Here i…
- Cambia Sells The Lens: What Changes for Users
In June 2026, Cambia sold The Lens to a new Australian non-profit under SPIE. Here’s what changes, and what does not, for Lens.org researchers.…
- The PREVAIL Act’s Stalled 2026 Progress: What the Proposed PTAB Reform Would Mean for Universities
The PREVAIL Act would tighten PTAB patent-challenge rules, but 2026 progress has stalled in committee — what it means for university TTOs.…
- CRKN’s 2026 Licensing Negotiations: How Canada’s National Research Library Consortium Works
CRKN, Canada’s national library consortium, is negotiating 2026 licenses with Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, T&F, and Wiley on cost and transparency.…
- Senate Judiciary’s July 2026 PERA Hearing: Stakes for University Diagnostics and AI Patents
Senate Judiciary July 14, 2026 hearing on PERA (S.1546) weighed patent eligibility for diagnostics and AI — key stakes for university tech transfer.…
- China’s 2026 MIIT Technology Contract Registration Rules: New Tax-Incentive Requirements for Tech Transfer Deals
MIIT’s revised technology contract registration rules, effective March 1 2026, tie VAT/CIT tax breaks to registered transfer, licensing, and R&D contracts.…
- PTAB Reaffirms Broad Institute’s CRISPR-Cas9 Eukaryotic-Cell Patent Priority (March 2026)
PTAB again ruled Broad/MIT/Harvard, not UC Berkeley’s CVC, invented eukaryotic CRISPR-Cas9 first — reaffirming priority on Federal Circuit remand.…
- Commerce Department’s Bayh-Dole March-In Proceeding Against Harvard: The 2025 Test Case
Commerce opened a Bayh-Dole march-in proceeding against Harvard’s patents in Aug. 2025 — the first agency-initiated test of march-in rights.…
- NIH’s New Access Planning Requirement for Patent Licenses: What Commercial Licensees Must Now Submit
Since October 1, 2025, applicants for commercial patent licenses on NIH-owned (intramural) inventions must submit an access plan addressing affordability, availability, acceptability, and sustainabili…
- Scholarly Publisher AI Licensing Deals: Inside the 2026 Numbers
Wiley disclosed $49M in FY2026 AI licensing revenue ($110M lifetime). Taylor & Francis and Springer Nature show similar deals; small publishers see little.…
