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NASA NTRS1994

Intellectual Property Rights at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center

At a fundamental level, intellectual property is the core work product of a technical organization. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), produces a variety of intellectual property including: patents, trademarks, data rights, copyright and rights associated with National Security. For a scientific organization to properly manage its work product it has to manage its intellectual property. This paper endeavors to describe how the intellectual property rights are generated and allocated at NASA. The author then goes on to discuss how the intellectual property might be managed to meet the objectives of program implementation, technology transfer and security.

Williams, Vernon E.↗
NASA NTRS1997

NASA Intellectual Property Negotiation Practices and their Relationship to Quantitative Measures of Technology Transfer

In the current political climate NASA must be able to show reliable measures demonstrating successful technology transfer. The currently available quantitative data of intellectual property technology transfer efforts portray a less than successful performance. In this paper, the use of only quantitative values for measurement of technology transfer is shown to undervalue the effort. In addition, NASA's current policy in negotiating intellectual property rights results in undervalued royalty rates. NASA has maintained that it's position of providing public good precludes it from negotiating fair market value for its technology and instead has negotiated for reasonable cost in order to recover processing fees. This measurement issue is examined and recommendations made which include a new policy regarding the intellectual property rights negotiation, and two measures to supplement the intellectual property measures.

Bush, Lance B.↗
NASA NTRS1990

Legal ramifications of intellectual property

Recent government policy changes that have resulted in encouraging or requiring increased intellectual property rights of Federally funded research and development activities are examined. The reasons for these changes are discussed, including considerations related to technology transfer, patent rights, copyrights, trade secrets, and computer software issues. The effect of these changes on traditional approaches to the dissemination of Federally funded scientific and technical information is considered and predictions concerning future trends in intellectual property rights are given.

Kempf, Robert F.↗
NASA NTRS1990

Legal ramifications of intellectual property

Recent government policy changes that have resulted in encouraging or requiring increased intellectual property rights of federally funded research and development activities are examined. The reasons for these changes are discussed, including considerations related to technology transfer, patent rights, copyrights, trade secrets, and computer software issues. The effect of these changes on traditional approaches to the dissemination of federally funded scientific and technical information is considered and predictions concerning future trends in intellectual property rights are given.

Kempf, Robert F.↗
NASA NTRS1983

Space Shuttle, private enterprise and intellectual properties in the context of space manufacturing

It is a national policy to make the capabilities of the Space Transportat ion System available to a wide range of potential users. This includes its availability as a space manufacturing facility for commercial activities, which may be carried out on a reimbursable basis or as a joint endeavor with NASA, but with substantial private investment. In any high risk, long lead-time research and development activity directed towards commercialization, the protection afforded the results of the research and development under the laws relating to intellectual property rights may provide an important incentive for private investment. The paper reviews NASA's policies and practices for the protection of privately-established intellectual property rights involved in STS use, with particular emphasis on reimbursable launch agreements and joint endeavor agreements.

Hosenball, S. N.↗
NASA NTRS2013

Remote Memory Access Protocol Target Node Intellectual Property

The MagnetoSpheric Multiscale (MMS) mission had a requirement to use the Remote Memory Access Protocol (RMAP) over its SpaceWire network. At the time, no known intellectual property (IP) cores were available for purchase. Additionally, MMS preferred to implement the RMAP functionality with control over the low-level details of the design. For example, not all the RMAP standard functionality was needed, and it was desired to implement only the portions of the RMAP protocol that were needed. RMAP functionality had been previously implemented in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, but the IP core was not available for purchase. The RMAP Target IP core is a VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language description of a digital logic design suitable for implementation in an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) or ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) that parses SpaceWire packets that conform to the RMAP standard. The RMAP packet protocol allows a network host to access and control a target device using address mapping. This capability allows SpaceWire devices to be managed in a standardized way that simplifies the hardware design of the device, as well as the development of the software that controls the device. The RMAP Target IP core has some features that are unique and not specified in the RMAP standard. One such feature is the ability to automatically abort transactions if the back-end logic does not respond to read/write requests within a predefined time. When a request times out, the RMAP Target IP core automatically retracts the request and returns a command response with an appropriate status in the response packet s header. Another such feature is the ability to control the SpaceWire node or router using RMAP transactions in the extended address range. This allows the SpaceWire network host to manage the SpaceWire network elements using RMAP packets, which reduces the number of protocols that the network host needs to support.

Haddad, Omar↗
NASA NTRS1985

Protecting intellectual property in space; Proceedings of the Aerospace Computer Security Conference, McLean, VA, March 20, 1985

The primary purpose of the Aerospace Computer Security Conference was to bring together people and organizations which have a common interest in protecting intellectual property generated in space. Operational concerns are discussed, taking into account security implications of the space station information system, Space Shuttle security policies and programs, potential uses of probabilistic risk assessment techniques for space station development, key considerations in contingency planning for secure space flight ground control centers, a systematic method for evaluating security requirements compliance, and security engineering of secure ground stations. Subjects related to security technologies are also explored, giving attention to processing requirements of secure C3/I and battle management systems and the development of the Gemini trusted multiple microcomputer base, the Restricted Access Processor system as a security guard designed to protect classified information, and observations on local area network security.

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NASA NTRS1992

The role of the University Licensing Office in transferring intellectual property to industry

Universities in the US have a significant impact on business through the transfer of technology. This transfer of technology takes various forms, including faculty communications, faculty consulting activities, and the direct transfer of technology through the licensing of patents, copyrights, and other intellectual property to industry. The topics discussed include the following: background of the MIT Technology Licensing Office (TLO), goals of the MIT TLO, MIT's technology transfer philosophy, and important factors for success in new company formation.

Preston, John T.↗
NASA NTRS2020

Intellectual Property and Licensing in the Commercial Space Age

The commercial space industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from the time when governments and very large space companies dominated the industry. A confluence of laws allowing commercial space companies to operate in unprecedented ways, new technologies enabling new commercial space applications, and an influx of risk capital has drastically changed the space industry landscape. As small and medium-sized companies enter the commercial space realm, they will seek a competitive advantage, and universities and the NASA space centers are positioned to offer such advantages. The commercial space industry has recently become an active area of technology partnering and licensing, even for technologies that have experienced poor licensing performance in the past. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is seeing unprecedented technology transfer activity in the areas of spacecraft navigation, mission design, space antennas, thrusters, radio occultation, and specialized satellites. Intellectual property rights and partnering play a crucial role in the ability of the private sector to invest in these technologies and to drive space technologies forward. Participants in this burgeoning field seek the most cutting-edge innovations to attain a competitive advantage, and it is crucial for those in the university and public sector to gain an understanding of the market forces that are driving the commercial space business.

Broderick, Daniel↗
NASA NTRS2020

Intellectual Property and Licensing in the Commercial Space Age

The commercial space industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from the time when governments and very large space companies dominated the industry. A confluence of laws allowing commercial space companies to operate in unprecedented ways, new technologies enabling new commercial space applications, and an influx of risk capital has drastically changed the space industry landscape. As small and medium-sized companies enter the commercial space realm, they will seek a competitive advantage, and universities and the NASA space centers are positioned to offer such advantages. The commercial space industry has recently become an active area of technology partnering and licensing, even for technologies that have experienced poor licensing performance in the past. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is seeing unprecedented technology transfer activity in the areas of spacecraft navigation, mission design, space antennas, thrusters, radio occultation, and specialized satellites. Intellectual property rights and partnering play a crucial role in the ability of the private sector to invest in these technologies and to drive space technologies forward. Participants in this burgeoning field seek the most cutting-edge innovations to attain a competitive advantage, and it is crucial for those in the university and public sector to gain an understanding of the market forces that are driving the commercial space business.

Broderick, Daniel↗
DOE OSTI2021

ERAS: Enabling the Integration of Real-World Intellectual Properties (IPs) in Architectural Simulators

Sandia National Laboratories is investigating scalable architectural simulation capabilities with a focus on simulating and evaluating highly scalable supercomputers for high performance computing applications. There is a growing demand for RTL model integration to provide the capability to simulate customized node architectures and heterogeneous systems. This report describes the first steps integrating the ESSENTial Signal Simulation Enabled by Netlist Transforms (ESSENT) tool with the Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST). ESSENT can emit C++ models from models written in FIRRTL to automatically generate components. The integration workflow will automatically generate the SST component and necessary interfaces to ’plug’ the ESSENT model into the SST framework.

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