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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
In Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., __ U.S. __ (2011)(Roberts, C.J.), affirming 583 F.3d 832 (Fed. Cir. 2009), the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the Federal Circuit's decision that the Bayh-Dole Act does not automatically vest title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors or authorize contractors to unilaterally take title to such inventions
