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...somebody who had the cure for AIDS refusedto share it and was protected under patent law,people would be a lot more up in arms," he said...
...result, even more innovation takes place. Massing said patent licensing is a growing source of income for research universities. The passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 underlies this development. The act allows universities to patent inventions resulting from research that receives federal support...
...likened a university's patent portfolio to "fine wines," saying that it takes time for new inventions to yield dividends...
...Patent disputes are erupting over online auctions just as they emerge as a killer app for sites such as Ebay and Onsale. The latest conflict pits comer Priceline.com against a Virginia inventor who claims he got to the patent office a year and a half earlier. MORE...
Officials at the National Institutes of Health were delighted that one of their own had struck the mother lode, and they rushed to patent Venter's genes. But across the NIH campus, James Watson, who had won a Nobel for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA and who was then running NIH's Human Genome Project, was outraged. This wasn't science, he insisted. "Virtually any monkey" could do that work, Watson fumed in the opening salvo of a battle that would rage for months--and which smolders to this day. To patent such abbreviated genetic material, said...