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Epilogue: Chairman's Remarks
Pages 30-32

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From page 30...
... Lacking any other venue for resolution in advance of issuance of a patent, these matters will continue to be settled case by case in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Another set of closely related issues concern material transfer agreements and licensing negotiations between academia and industry, which many feel have for a decade been an impediment to the efficient and equitable sharing of research materials.
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From page 31...
... Responsibilities accruing to the providers of such databases include: protecting the underlying sources of information (for example, human identities or museum and culture collection specimens) , developing standard formats for data contributions and data presentation on-line, supporting the creation of interoperable, flexible and powerful computational tools to search, retrieve and analyze the data, and establishing a common set of values to balance the interests of data contributors and database users.
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From page 32...
... Consequently, we need to evaluate the effects of basic federal policies, such as patent policy and the policies emanating from the Bayh-Dole Act, on university research broadly, and on the behavior of universities, industry, and individual scientists in both sectors. We should assess whether they are having their intended effects, what their unintended effects are, and to what extent they are promoting the public benefit from science.
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