Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 3, 2014 @04:51AM from the those-lights-can-be-infuriating-at-night dept.

curtwoodward (2147628) writes "In January, Boston University settled lawsuits against two dozen big technology companies for allegedly using its patented blue LED technology without permission. But apparently, the school's lawyers were a little too forthcoming for everyone's tastes — they recently asked a federal judge to delete a court filing that spelled out all of the companies who settled. Luckily, we still had the unredacted version, which shows that Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Motorola and many more are on the list, even if they don't want you to know it."

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Universities should have no patents by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-03 05:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

Universities should serve the public good. Anything created there should go into the public commons and be available to anybody and everybody to use. When you make the choice to be, or work at, a university you trade profit for service. If you can't accept that, then work somewhere else, or be some other type of an institution than a university.