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The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that a federal law known as the Bayh-Dole Act does not displace the long-established rule that rights in an invention belong to the inventor and that title to federally funded inventions does not automatically vest in federal contractors
Inventors retained their prime place with the Supreme Court’s opinion released on Monday, June 6, in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc
