Trump Administration Threatens to Take over Harvard's Patents

9 jaredwiener 3 8/9/2025, 1:33:20 AM wsj.com ↗

Comments (3)

esseph · 32m ago
> The Bayh–Dole Act or Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act (Pub. L. 96-517, December 12, 1980) is U.S. legislation permitting ownership by contractors of inventions arising from federal government-funded research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act#:~:text=...

Regardless, the reason this is happening is to threaten Harvard further. Any way the administration can to make them toe the party line.

SilverElfin · 49m ago
Why do taxpayer funded institutions own any patents? They should be owned by taxpayers.
techpineapple · 38m ago
Wouldn’t this dramatically limit the governments power to influence, well everything? How much green energy investment went to companies with patents? Tesla and SpaceX would be out.