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Three times in the last few months we have produced newsletters concerning recent court decisions discussing the rights and obligations of a university in an invention made by a member of its academic staff
The Quebec Court of Appeal recently released its decision in Université de Sherbrooke v. Beaudoin et al. which discusses the rights and obligations of a university when dealing with inventions made by its employees
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
A recent decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia (University of Western Australia v. Gray (Gray) puts into question the rights that universities may hold in inventions made by their academic staff
