Supreme Court: patent law trumps Bayh-Dole

June 06, 2011

The Supreme Court has affirmed the Federal Circuit’s decision in Stanford v Roche, finding that the Bayh-Dole Act does not automatically vest title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors

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