Even Under Bayh-Dole, Employee Inventor Has First Dibs
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Even Under Bayh-Dole, Employee Inventor Has First Dibs
The Supreme Court of the United States recently delivered a blow to the university technology transfer world by holding 7-2 that federal contractors do not have an automatic right to claim title to inventions. Because all ownership rights stem initially from the inventor, even in the case of federally funded research, the inventor's ownership rights trump the Bayh-Dole vesting provision.
In its second affirmance of a U.S. Court of Appeal...See the full content of this document
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