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...Central to its mandate, the TDAF actively seeks out and solicits proposals from the faculty that have a direct bearing upon neglected diseases endemic to the developing world. For example, as a result of TDAF funding, a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health has been able to advance his efforts to develop new drugs against tuberculosis, a neglected disease that remains a major threat to public health...
...Consider in Drafting Technology Licenses” with colleagues at several of Harvard’s peer institutions of higher education. It is an exhortation directed at the critical role that universities must play in serving the world’s most vulnerable populations. OTD also helped to develop a master agreement amongst all Massachusetts research institutions relating to the management of jointly owned intellectual property (IP) that contains specific language requiring its stewards to carefully consider its patenting and licensing strategy in order to enhance the availability of new medicines in the developing world...
...Harvard’s objective to deliver socially beneficial outcomes to the public from discoveries made by its faculty is embodied in, and advanced by, OTD’s core mission. We actively foster innovation, identify appropriate industrial partners to develop new inventions made at Harvard, and negotiate license agreements that enable the translation of such inventions into new products in the hope of benefiting society. Every relevant invention made at Harvard is an opportunity to contribute to global health and well-being. We take very seriously our commitment to serve the public good...
...such technologies, Harvard must retain the right to grant licenses directly to NGOs and not-for-profit organizations to practice Harvard’s patent rights to develop and manufacture products for humanitarian distribution in developing countries. Contrary to what was stated in the editorial on Mar. 1, the reservation of academic research rights is a non-negotiable term of every exclusive license granted by Harvard...
...Actually no, as the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is finding out the hard way. The ACMA, Canberra's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, put together such a list and sent it to more than a dozen companies. It was part of a trial program to develop software that would allow Australian ISPs to block the sites. But to ACMA's evident surprise, at least one person who received the list handed it over to Wikileaks, an online clearinghouse for anonymous submissions of sensitive material. The ACMA "blacklist," as it became known, was promptly posted online, becoming...