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...other Fellows in their consideration of this question. First, the company would have involved a Faculty member--Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology--in a major role. Second, the University had to determine its role in the commercial application of its potentially lucrative DNA patents. And, in general, the issue of "technology transfer"--how knowledge is transmitted from the academic to the commercial sector--became more pressing than it has since Harvard re-examined its patent policy in 1975 and decided to help professors patent their discoveries...
While the Faculty debates these issues, the Corporation must also continue to discuss updating the University's patent policy. And both groups must consider Harvard's role in the commercial application of knowledge. In these discussions, other questions will inevitably arise. The Faculty will be forced to look at its tenure process--which could be seriously impaired if Faculty members involved in outside ventures are judged for tenure on their non-academic accomplishments...
Three of four panelists at the Kennedy School Forum last night criticized the June Supreme Court decision to grant a patent for a genetically-modified organism...
...arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War. Walt Whitman wrote of soldiers dying there between the rows of inventions. The Phillips Collection at 21st and Q is still a great place to be alone with a painting. Yet a lot of the best in Washington...
Harvard officials worry that legislation affecting the University--bills that would increase grants for scientific research and aid to medical school students, as well as a measure designed to revamp federal patent procedures--may be ignored in the upcoming "lame duck" congressional session as Republicans wait for their new reinforcements to arrive and Democrats try to bandage their wounded...