Congress should leave the nation’s patent law alone, says the director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Carl Gulbrandsen is in Washington today to testify on the Patent Act of 2005 before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Gulbrandsen, who also serves on an advisory committee to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, spoke to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property last week.
In that testimony, he said the proposed legislation “chips away at the value of university patents for the benefit of certain industries and, thereby, diminishes the good that can come from university technology transfer.”