Ed: The title above is misleading. As previously discussed on The Ave, Stanford vs. Roche Molecular has evolved into a battle over the patents rights of faculty members. The case esp. important at the UW because, unlike Stanford faculty we do not sign a contract. Instead our working agreem[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Intellectual Property’
March 8th, 2011 - 5:41 pm § in Schools & Colleges, Science
Imperial College takes on Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell
Felix Online, the online news of Imperial College in the UK, reports (in an article by Kadhim Shubber) that Deborah Shorley, Director of the Imperial College London Library, is threatening to end the library’s subscriptions to journals published by Elsevier and Wiley Blackwell, two of the major [...]
February 25th, 2011 - 9:17 am § in Schools & Colleges
Who OWNS what UW faculty create?
All faculty need to understand that we DO have a contract and that contract, the Faculty Code, effects a lot more than “just” free speech or due process. The Code effects YOUR rights to work you produce, even if that work is on “your own time.” Stanford University has asked[...]
February 17th, 2011 - 1:39 pm § in Misc.
Biotech and Madoff:the decline and fall of American Pharma.
There are some real reasons that health care in America costs more than anywhere else. One difficult part of this is that we Americans have been subsidizing the entire world because our market model is unique. The American drug market is open to free competition with little in the way of price c[...]
January 6th, 2011 - 8:11 am § in Schools & Colleges, Science
What is wrong with Scientific Publishing?
Can we put it right before it is too late? from Cambridge I sat down today to write code and and found that I couldn’t – I had to write about science publishing, so here goes. I intend this will be the first of several posts. I often blog in forceful style (rant?) but here […][...]