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On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, being health care legislation commonly referred to as “Obamacare”
Hot on the heels of an Australian decision in September, an October 1 decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.) gives further reason for universities to be vigilant in ensuring that the rights they hope to hold in inventions made by their academic staff are properly assigned
