Trump Administration Threatens to Take over Harvard's Patents

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esseph · 50m 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 · 1h ago

Why do taxpayer funded institutions own any patents? They should be owned by taxpayers.

techpineapple · 57m 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.

bediger4000 · 16m ago

This headline gives "Trump Administration" the agency. Similar articles give "Trump" as the actor.

Can we read something in to the headline? That is, does a "Trump Administration" headline imply something like people in the Trump admin are doing this, while a "Trump" headline means that Trump himself is pushing the issue?

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Trump Administration Threatens to Take over Harvard's Patents

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