AUTM becomes the fifth recipient of the Fifth City of Venice Award for Intellectual Property

The AIM Blog reports that "The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) has become the fifth recipient of the Fifth City of Venice Award for Intellectual Property. At a ceremony in the Palazzo Ducale in St Mark's Squarelast night, AUTM vice-president Kevin Cullen, from the University of Glasgow, receive the award on behalf of the association from Paolo Baratta, the president of the Venice Biennale."

Founded in 1974 to promote university technology transfer in the United States and Canada AUTM has since become a global organisation and boasts over 3,000 members worldwide. In awarding the Premio Venezia tot he associaiton, te organisers noted its role in "having developed the role of industrial property rights in the economy, transforming them into tools contributing to the progress of society seen as a whole". The award comes at a time when criticism of the Bayh-Dole Act in the United States is growing more strident and will be a boost to AUTM and its members as they seek to counter these attacks.

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