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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."
This makes no sense. On one hand I think "While maybe it's a classic Slashdot slam at patents?", but in this case the innovators are the students, rather than the professors, so...it just makes no sense.
There are so many instances where a "higher up" takes credit for something someone else has done. Hell, some people have made a career out of it. Like when Gore "created" the internet?