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I don't have a problem with a university owning a patent unless the work was somehow funded by the Federal Government, in which case it should be disallowed.
by RexRollman 15y ago
I don't have a problem with a university owning a patent unless the work was somehow funded by the Federal Government, in which case it should be disallowed.
- nobody314159 15y agoWhat about the university using research funds to defend the patent? If you have a patent you have to defend it and prosecute to make money from it. That costs lawyers. At one point do you decide it would be cheaper to just allow the world to benefit from the invention rather than spend your entire budget on a legal case? Are we going to have universities forming patent groups to fight other universities?