IST 432 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Roche Diagnostics, Sergey Brin, Startup Company
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Response essays: innovations and inventions: chapter 2, question and case problem 2: stanford researchers working on a biotech invention patented their work. At this time, stanford had a permissive policy with regard to ownership of inventions, and rights were not automatically assigned as they are currently. It turns out that in this case, board of trustees v. Roche molecular systems, stanford lost rights to this invention. Can you develop any rationale for why universities and other research teams (such as those at bell. Despite the outcome of this case, universities like stanford as well as other research teams will keep a permissive licensing arrangement with researchers for various important reasons. The first being examples like the start-up of google. Not many know this, but google was founded by a pair of graduate students at stanford, who were researching ways to improve upon the field of large-scale data-mining techniques.