The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday about the rights of universities and colleges in patenting and technology transfer, an area of recent interest to higher ed in Delaware.
Generally, non-profit institutions have patent rights over any invention their faculty creates through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 . This is the case even though the federal government funds most of university research through competitive grants from agencies like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
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