The head of Wisconsin’s biggest technology transfer organization has been in Washington, D.C., the last few weeks trying to temper enthusiasm in Congress for making big changes to U.S. patent law.
Carl E. Gulbrandsen, who testified at the invitation of House and Senate subcommittees, said the push to give courts more discretion about whether to grant injunctions in patent infringement cases could hurt organizations like his, which are trying to move technology out of university laboratories and into commercial use.