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Fri Aug 8, 2025, 07:13 PM

Aug 8

The Dole-Bayh Act is basically the mechanism that launched the neoliberal university. If you threaten it pretty much the whole university-industry partnership basis collapses. I mean, that might be the goal, but this is radical stuff. What's remarkable is that this is the policy intervention you would expect from a communist government. Like, if Americans elected a communist administration, one of the first things they would do is deprivatize the university system through intervention on the Dole-Bayh Act and the patent system. One of the primary opponents of Dole-Bayh was Richard Stallman, for goodness sake. This is truly comical.

Trumpism is control economy, pure and simple.

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Trump threatens Harvard patents worth hundreds of millions [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 8 OP

They haved laid siege to this country and are now in the process of raping and pillaging all they can. Native Aug 8 #1

Is this really happening because Harvard rejected his son's application? Marcuse Aug 8 #2

No. It's happening because a fascist regime wants to control all of the country's institutions Prairie Gates Aug 8 #5

Time to investigate Patents of all Bread and Circuses Aug 8 #3

ROFL Prairie Gates Aug 8 #4

So, American businesses are comfortable with patents being arbitrarily subject to reconsideration ? eppur_se_muova Aug 8 #6

There's an argument to be made that Google is a result of a Dole-Bayh Act patent Prairie Gates Aug 9 #7

If businesses are NOT ok with this, the they best start raising their voices. riversedge Aug 9 #8