Stanford's Office of Technology Licensing and the Cohen/Boyer cloning patents
By: Niels Reimers ; interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes in 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Hughes, Sally Smith.; Program in the History of the Biosciences and Biotechnology.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1998
Subjects: Cohen, Stanley N.; Boyer, Herbert W.; Kennedy, Donald, 1931-; Stanford University. Office of Technology Licensing.; University of California (System). Office of Technology Transfer.; License agreements -- United States.; Technology -- Management.; Engineers -- California -- Interviews.; Biology -- Patents.; Recombinant DNA -- Patents.; Cloning -- Patents.
Genres: Interviews.; Patents.
Description: Pre-Stanford career in industry; establishing a technology licensing program at Stanford University; Cohen-Boyer recombinant DNA patents: negotiating with inventors, Stanford, and University of California; commercial potential, royalty distribution, controversy over patenting in biology, licensing plan, recombinant DNA controversy, National Institutes of Health role, opening patent files to public, Chakrabarty Supreme Court case, claims by John Morrow and Robert Helling; patenting and licensing monoclonal antibodies; Pajaro Dunes Conference on Biotechnology, 1982; University Licensing Pool for Technology (ULab); comments on Stanley Cohen, Herbert Boyer, and Donald Kennedy.