Title:
Genentech legal counsel and vice president, 1976-1988, and entrepreneur : oral history transcript / 2002
Creator/Contributor:
Kiley, Thomas D., 1943-, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Hughes, Sally Smith, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Creator/Contributor:
Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Abstract:
Education in chemical engineering, law; early experiences as patent examiner and patent solicitor; intellectual property trial
lawyer, Lyon & Lyon; outside legal counsel to Genentech, 1976-1980; vice president and general counsel, Genentech, 1980-1988:
Genentech's IPO, 1980; Diamond v. Chakrabarty Supreme Court case; recombinant DNA; commercialization of biotechnology; intellectual
property; research and development clinical partnerships, patenting and licensing; Genentech-University of California legal
relationships; Bayh-Dole Act, 1980; Genencor; Geron; Intermune Pharmaceuticals; National Institute of Health-Department of
Energy Joint Committee on the Human Genome, 1992; comments on Herb Boyer, Dave Goeddel, Robert Swanson and others.
Date:
2002 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Patent lawyers -- California -- Interviews
Biotechnology industries -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Biotechnology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Biotechnology -- Research -- Law and legislation -- California
Biotechnology -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Patents
Agents de brevets -- Californie -- Entretiens
Bio-industries -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Biotechnologie -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Biotechnology
Biotechnology industries
Biotechnology -- Research -- Law and legislation
Patent lawyers
California
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Genentech, Inc. -- History
Genentech, Inc.
Note:
Thomas D. Kiley ; with introductions by Rebecca S. Eisenberg and James W. Geriak. Interviews conducted by Sally Smith Hughes
in 2000 and 2001. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Program in the History of the Biological Sciences and Biotechnology.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
Type:
patent
biography
History.
Interviews.
Patents.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xi, 217 pages) : portraits ; 29 cm
13 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.