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Non-profits can still have patent portfolios that they try to exploit for commercial gain -- though by licensing, rather than producing products directly. When
by rst 5y ago
Non-profits can still have patent portfolios that they try to exploit for commercial gain -- though by licensing, rather than producing products directly. When the research was publicly funded, the same conflicts of interest apply.
- dekhn 5y agoThe Broad also makes enormous bank as a sequencing service for pharma. They are "non profit" but they make a profit.