U.S. Supreme Court
Jun. 8, 2011
Inventors Own Their Inventions, High Court Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court preserved the bedrock principle in patent law that the rights to an invention belong to the inventor Monday, despite Stanford University's claim that a 30-year-old law said otherwise.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday preserved the bedrock principle in patent law that the rights to an invention belong to the inventor despite Stanford University's claim a 30-year-old law said otherwise.
The court rejected on a 7-2 vote the university's argument the Bayh-Dole Act, a law designed to promote the commercialization of inventions from federally funded research, aut...
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