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Supreme Court holds that Bayh-Dole Act does not automatically strip employees of rights in their federally funded inventions

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 9 2011

On June 6, 2011, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems (7-2, with Justices Breyer and Ginsburg dissenting) that clarifies the scope of inventors’ rights in federally funded inventions vis-à-vis their federal contractor employers