There are informal mechanisms as well. Someone will say to a hotheaded or greedy faculty member "look, you can't boot M off this patent, three years ago that ot

There are informal mechanisms as well. Someone will say to a hotheaded or greedy faculty member "look, you can't boot M off this patent, three years ago that other faculty member booted N off a few patents, there were issues, and then we had to pay tens of thousands for all the amended filings!"