Ryan, CJ; Frye, Brian L. - 2018
patents. These include: the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980; the extension of the maximum patent term in 1994; and the shift from a … indirectly, and have coincided with historic increases in patent activity among academic institutions.This article presents an … empirical study of how those three changes to the patent system precipitated responses by academic institutions, using spline …