In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bayh-Dole Act does not give federal contractors automatic ownership of inventions that spring from their federally funded research.
The court’s June 6 ruling held that Stanford University, a recipient of federal funds, did not have exclusive rights to an employee’s invention under the act when that employee had assigned his rights to another entity: “Nowhere in the act are inventors expressly deprived of their interest in federally funded inventions.”
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