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Monday, March 27, 2017

Patent Medicine of the 21st Century

Things have evidently become more complicated and contentious than back in the day:

In the final days of 2016, the Regents of the University of California, which governs the University of California (UC) system, filed a lawsuit against a former graduate student from UC Santa Cruz (UCSC). At the center of the legal spat is the proper assignation of a series of patents covering DNA sequencing technologies, which UC alleges were developed while the inventor was under an agreement obliging him to assign those patents to UC. The suit has been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (N.D. Cal.)...

Full story at http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/03/26/university-california-assignment-patents-former-grad-student/id=79687/

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