I don't know about the situation in general, but Indiana University's chemistry department receives (or, at one point did receive) a substantial amount of money from royalties on the patent for fluoridated water. That patent goes way bad, at least to the '50s. So there's definately a precident for this sort of thing.
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I don't know about the situation in general, but Indiana University's chemistry department receives (or, at one point did receive) a substantial amount of money from royalties on the patent for fluoridated water. That patent goes way bad, at least to the '50s. So there's definately a precident for this sort of thing.