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Universities themselves likely don't have the reserves required to fund a good legal team for that. Commercial sponsors maybe benefitted from the positive resu
by dspillett 3y ago
Universities themselves likely don't have the reserves required to fund a good legal team for that.
Commercial sponsors maybe benefitted from the positive results and don't want to risk losing future such benefits by biting the hands that feed them…
- conception 3y agoEnough Universities, such as USC in the article, definitely have the funding to do this however. Enough Universities do that could start some precedence and give researchers at smaller unis payse before bad behavior.
- mvdtnz 3y agoAccording to Wikipedia, USC has a $7.4 billion endowment.
- some_random 3y agoUniversities are some of the wealthiest institutions on the planet, and they don't seem to have any issues getting a legal team together when it comes to other matters.
- jampekka 3y agoWhy would universities sue them? They are benefactors of research funding, not the ones paying them. NIH and other funders would be the ones that would like their money back (although they don't probably care either).