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The Association of American Universities and other associations urged the Senate Finance Committee to include provisions in any upcoming tax reform package that help students save and pay for higher education, and manage their student loan debt.
Taxation & Finance | Student Aid Tax Issues | Endowments and Charitable Giving | LettersIn October 2014, the Association of American Universities (AAU) formed the AAU Technology Transfer Working Group with the task of reaffirming that the primary goal of university technology transfer operations is to advance the public interest.
Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | RecommendationIn June 2009, the Committee on Science and Technology of the United States House of Representatives, in coordination with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), convened a Scholarly Publishing Roundtable to examine the current state of scholarly publishing and develop con
Intellectual Property | ReportsThe Milken Institute today released a report ranking more than 200 U.S. universities for their ability to turn their research into products and startup companies. Seventeen AAU universities were ranked in the top 20 schools.
Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | ReportsThe study, which sensibly attempts to draw distinctions among the widely varied business models of actors in the patent system, supports our long-held position that any efforts to reduce abusive litigation practices must be narrowly tailored to address the small minority of patent holders that are…
Patents | Intellectual Property | StatementsA statement by Hunter Rawlings, President of AAU, on the omnibus appropriations and tax bills Congress will consider this week.
Federal Budget | National Science Foundation | FY16 | Agency Budgets | National Institutes of Health | Department of Defense | Department of Energy | NASA | Department of Education | National Endowment for the Humanities | Agriculture & Food Research Initiative | Fiscal Policy | Taxation & Finance | Endowments and Charitable Giving | Press ReleasesAAU thanks Representative Stivers (R-OH) and Bill Foster (D-IL) for introducing the STRONGER Patents Act, bipartisan legislation that would effectively crack down on abuses of the U.S. patent system while taking steps to improve that system.
Patents | Technology Transfer | Intellectual Property | Press ReleasesAAU, along with AAMC, APLU, AUTM, and COGR, Wednesday submitted for the record comments on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s gathering of public information about the Study of Underrepresented Classes Chasing Engineering and Science Success Act of 2018.
Intellectual Property | CommentsAAU President Barbara R. Snyder sent a letter to Congress expressing support for certain provisions of the Build Back Better Act and urging some important modifications as the bill advances through the legislative process. The letter emphasizes the significance of a successful government-university…
Infrastructure and Innovation | Student Aid | FY22 | Student Aid Tax Issues | COVID-19 | Higher Education Legislation | Innovation and Competitiveness | Taxation & Finance | Endowments and Charitable Giving | LettersAAU comments addressing the Copyright Office’s September 2, 2021, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
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