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DoD’s Demand for Commercial IP Ownership Hampers Innovation and Industry Collaboration
Defense Department’s insistence on owning commercial intellectual property rights creates barriers for tech companies, limiting innovation and slowing acquisition of critical tech…
The Department of Defense’s current intellectual property policies, which often require unlimited or government purpose rights to commercial software, are discouraging private sector innovation and restricting public-private partnerships essential for national security. Industry leaders argue that protecting core comm…