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In the United States, the Bayh-Dole Act vests patent rights from federally funded research in the university where the research is carried out, rather than in the individual researchers
One problem with not rewriting the words of statutes is that patent offices then find that they have to apply the original words - which was the difficulty which often led to using some alternative formulation
