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Bayh-DoleAact does not automatically vest title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 26 2011

In Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., No. 09-1159 (U.S. June 6, 2011), the Supreme Court held that the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980 (the “Bayh-Dole Act” or “Act”) does not automatically vest title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors or authorize contractors to unilaterally take title to such inventions