Supreme Court to hear arguments in Stanford patent dispute

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Source: San Jose Mercury News

The invention of an AIDS test is a big deal, and it takes a lot of time, smarts and money to develop a good one.

So there's a lot at stake in the legal tussle between Stanford University and the pharmaceutical giant Roche, with oral arguments opening Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The question is this: Do patents on inventions that arise from federally funded research go to the university where the inventor worked? That is Stanford's assertion.

Or is that claim trumped by a side agreement between an inventor and a private company? That is the argument made by Roche, whose lucrative test flowed from the Stanford's professor's research.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Federally funded should go to the feds

[McCamy Taylor]

5. But the feds will give it to Roche----a Swiss company I believe. ROFLMAO

Our federal research and Medicare dollars going to fatten the pockets of already rotund Swiss businessmen.

[krispos42]

2. Roche, 5-4.

It's the Roberts court, of COURSE it will go corporate.

[SoapBox]

3. Ditto

...the Five Activist Minds-Made-Up-Already and Biased
to the Right Judges, will side with business.

[Orrex]

4. Hey, how about a spoiler alert next time?

[sakabatou]

6. Yeah, I see that too.