June 28, 2002

Supreme Court Ruling Will Help Guard Academic Inventions

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month will help universities protect their patents from being infringed upon by copycat inventors.

Although the case itself had nothing to do with a university invention, the ruling, which overturned a lower court's decision, is expected to particularly benefit academic inventors and others who file for patents on basic-research findings. More than 20 universities and academic organizations had filed a brief urging the justices to rule as

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