To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Jonathan was the lead author on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association's (BPLA's) Patent Office Practice and Licensing Committees of an April 2021 Response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding proposed changes to the rules implementing the Bayh-Dole Act which governs rights in inventions made with Federal assistance. In particular, NIST sought input on its goal of furthering return on investment for subject inventions developed under Federal funding