Billions at Stake in University Patent Fights - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-university-patents
[A] turning point occurred in the late 1970s when schools lobbied Congress for passage of a bill that would give universities patent rights to discoveries made as a result of federally funded research. Congress, eager to boost American’s lagging competitiveness, passed the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980. Bayh-Dole cleared the way for colleges to retain patent rights and put an end to the prior case-by-case approval system.
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