On a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh said the landmark patent law that bears his name is under attack from critics who don’t understand the context in which it was passed.
Bayh, a featured speaker at the annual Kastenmeier Lecture at the UW-Madison Law School, was in Madison to recount the 1980 passage of the Bayh-Dole Act, which gave universities the right to patent their intellectual property and license it to companies for commercial development.