ARE Patent Litigation Alert: U.S. Supreme Court find Bayh-Dole Act Does Not Override Employees’ Rights to Unassigned Inventions

On June 6, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 563 U.S. __ (2011), a case related to the rights of inventors in federally-funded research programs. In Stanford, the Court rejected Stanford’s position that when an invention is conceived […]