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On June 9, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership, unanimously affirmed that patents can only be proved invalid by “clear and convincing evidence.”
In Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bayh-Dole Act, a 1980 technology transfer law governing federally funded research, does not trump an inventor’s prior assignment of patent rights
