Human Proof Of Concept

If you work in biotech, or venture capital, if you pay taxes, or take medicine… you really ought to know the name Joe Allen. He worked tirelessly behind the scenes in Washington to get the Bayh-Dole Act passed into law. Sponsored by Senators Birch Bayh and Bob Dole, and passed at the last possible opportunity in a lame duck session of Congress in 1980, it is the legislation that realigned the incentives of the patent system to enable small biotech companies and their investors to flourish. And Joe's been implementing, overseeing, protecting, sharing, and blogging about it ever since.