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Modes to protect university research for tech transfer have shifted dramatically

May 15, 2017 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

"The old model was patent, market and license," Kasper said. "What you are seeing now are innovations that are protected in other ways. Patent applications are still widely used, but software and information is what is driving the majority of market sectors today. A lot of those innovations are not necessarily patentable. Software is an authored work, so it can be copyrighted, and the life span of a copyright is significantly longer than that of a patent."

By BECKY GILLETTE

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