When governments intensified their expectations for universities to maximise unrealised value from public research investment, universities developed policies for ownership and exploitation of intellectual property aligned with these external expectations. The stories in this chapter exemplify the critical role that intellectual property scholars performed in the 1990s and early 2000s in development of such policies. Their role appears to have diminished when policy consideration concerns procedural matters of identification and protection of intellectual property and modes for its commercialisation. However, policies are not stagnant, and intellectual property scholars remain an invaluable resource when proposals affect existing rights and responsibilities under intellectual property law