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Intellectual Property

Mar. 2, 2011

High Court Mulls Patent Ownership

The U.S. Supreme Court waded into a dispute Monday between Stanford University and a multinational biotech firm over patent rights for inventions arising from federally funded research projects.


By Robert Iafolla


Daily Journal Staff Writer


WASHINGTON - In an intellectual property dispute pitting Stanford University against a multinational biotech firm, the U.S. Supreme Court considered Monday who owns patent rights for inventions arising from federally funded research projects.


Stanford claims Roche Molecular Systems Inc. infringed its patents for a process testing how well anti-AIDS drugs work, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the F...

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