Technology Transfer: Agencies' Rights to Federally Sponsored Biomedical Inventions.

摘要

We assessed (1) who is eligible to use and benefit from the government's licenses to biomedical inventions created under federally sponsored research, (2) the extent to which the federal government has licenses to those biomedical inventions it procures or uses most commonly, and (3) the extent to which those eligible have actually used or benefited from these licenses. We focused our work on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD)--which are responsible for the bulk of the governments biomedical procurements--and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which funds most biomedical research.