Perspective
Jun. 11, 2011
Rights in an Invention Belong to the Inventor
Now that federal contractors cannot rely on the Bayh-Dole Act to provide title to inventions, what's next? By David C. Doyle, Deanne E. Maynard, and Gregory W. Reilly of Morrison & Foerster
On June 6, the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time interpreted the Bayh-Dole Act, a federal statute regulating ownership of patents arising from federally funded research, and gave it a narrower scope than many had traditionally understood it to have.
The Supreme Court's decision in Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems Inc., No. 09-1159,...
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