Legal Opinion
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 6, 2011No. 09-1159PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
Since 1790, the patent law has operated on the premise that rights in an invention belong to the inventor. The question here is whether the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980 — commonly referred to as the Bayh-Dole Act — displaces that norm and automatically vests title to federally funded inventions in federal contractors. We hold that it does not.
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