Kelly L. Morron is a principal of The Law Offices of Kelly L. Morron and a founding member of the Association of Amicus Counsel. Ms. Morron is a patent attorney who has spent her career in the pharma and biotech space asserting clients’ rights with respect to patented inventions and who seeks to ensure that the rights to valid patents are preserved.
I have been critical of certain National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposals to alter the regulations related to the Bayh-Dole Act, in 2021 (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, NPR), and specifically, the NIST “Framework” published for comments in December, 2023. My Comments submitted in February addressed numerous legal infirmities, ranging from construction analysis to demonstrated ambiguity problems of the Request for Information/Comments (RFI) itself.