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In Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., the Supreme Court upheld the basic principle of U.S. patent law that rights to an invention vest initially in the inventor(s), and affirmed the Federal Circuit's determination that the Bayh-Dole Act does not upset the rule of inventor ownership
