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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a part of the US Department of Commerce, proposed a slate of detrimental changes to regulations in the Bayh-Dole Act governing “Rights to Federally Funded Inventions and Licensing of Government Owned Invention.” The public was given the opportunity to comment on the proposed changes, and by the close of the comment period on April 5, 2021 NIST had received over 81,000 comments on the issue. The proposed changes cover a variety of areas that impact policies concerning access to medicines and drug pricing, including patients’ rights to challenge the government’s grant of a taxpayer-funded invention to aRead More →

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24 April 2019 – Today the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) released its Green Paper on Return on Public Investment. The Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment (UACT) strongly opposes this push by the Trump Administration to hamstring patient safeguards ensuring equitable and affordable access to medicines. A draft Green Paper published on December 6, 2018 included proposals designed to narrow and even eliminate important safeguards in the Bayh-Dole Act. Those damaging proposals remained in the final publication. The NIST proposals will harm patients seeking access to treatment and will instead protect the pharmaceutical companies that sell expensive drugs, vaccines, diagnosticRead More →

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In December 2018, the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) (a part of the Department of Commerce) published a draft Green Paper, titled “Return on Investment Initiative for Unleashing American Innovation” (NIST Special Publication 1234). A copy of the draft Green Paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.1234 The draft Green Paper was published after the launch of an April 2018 initiative, “Unleashing American Innovation Symposium” and followed four public hearings and a request for comments noticed on May 1, 2018 (83 FR 19052). The initial comment period closed July 30, 2018. UACT drafted a letter to raise the alarm in members of Congress that anRead More →