Student Researcher Wins Patent Dispute

Matthew writes: "For years, student researchers at universities have alleged that the hierarchical system in academic research allows supervising PhDs to steal and patent inventions that were rightfully discovered by students. The Federal Circuit finally addressed these concerns by interpreting the law in a way that strictly protects the rights of student researchers. As such, student researchers will now be able to sue their supervising PhDs for any actions that are not in the best interests of the student researcher or the patent rights of the student researcher."

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it's about time.

[xdangavinx]

from my experience in universities, academic advisors existed for the reason of advising me what to do with my research. in the sense that they would point me in the direction of where it is to go to get particular information and whatnot.

by a lot of these resident phds being able to steal patent ideas from their students - without the better portion of them taking appropriate action against this, i can't help but wonder just how many of them did rightfully do what was required of them to earn their phds.