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...faculty who receive funding from industry tend to be those who publish more often, participate more in public service, and patent more than researchers receiving funding from other sources, said David Blumenthal, one of the study's authors and head of the Kennedy School of Government-based center...
...HASN'T BEEN AN EASY YEAR for Harvard's administrators. From the John F. Kennedy School of Government to Massachusetts Hall to 17 Quincy St., some of the University's highest officials have found their time occupied by angry students, faculty and alumni. Patent administrative blunders and muddled thinking have caused some of the worst behavior by Harvard's leaders, rocked the University with controversy and exposed a severe governance problem at our institution...
...Ehrlich '87 of Quincy House and Sacramento, Calif.; Nathan W. Eigerman '88 of Dudley House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; David Greene '89 of Hurlbut Hall and Spring Valley, N.Y.; Josh H. Henkin '87 of Quincy House and New York, N.Y.; Jennifer M. O'Connor of Eliot House and Wellesley; David Patent '88 Cabot House and Missoula, Mont.; Ellen R. Pinchuk '88 of Mather House and Tarzana, Calif.; Peter D. Sagal '87 of Quincy House and Berkeley Heights, N.J.; Don W. Sung '89 of Thayer Hall and San Francisco, Calif.; John P. Thompson '89 of Pennypacker Hall and Madison, Wisc.; Nathaniel...
Last year, after months of feuding, the Pasteur team, headed by Dr. Luc Montagnier, filed two legal actions in the U.S. The first challenged a patent on the blood test awarded to Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues. The second charged Gallo with breach of contract for allegedly using for commercial purposes samples of virus sent to him by the French. Gallo had agreed to use the samples for research purposes only...
...French last week scored a minor triumph in the battle: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged that they indeed had a rival claim to the blood-test patent and were entitled to a formal hearing. Moreover, the Patent Office recognized the French as the "senior party," since their patent application was filed seven months earlier than the NIH application. Now, says Charles Lipsey, a patent attorney for Pasteur, "the burden of proving that they invented the test first is going to rest on Dr. Gallo...