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Law Practice

Nov. 27, 2013

Enter the academic-entrepreneur

Once a rarity, research faculty who are actively interested in bringing their technologies to the marketplace are increasingly common. By Seth D. Levy


By Seth D. Levy


It's not every day that state law enforcement agents raid the home and office of a university professor to seize files and computer equipment. The subsequent arrest of the professor and his academic colleagues on racketeering charges seems even more bizarre. Scenes like these are the stuff of fictional television drama - not the real-life experiences of entrepreneurially minded electrical engineers at one of the country's top research univ...

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