Are university researchers at risk for patent infringement?
Academic researchers have regularly ignored patents on key technologies as a strategy to maneuver around patent thickets and freedom-to-operate issues, but they may be more at risk than they realize.
Yancey
Amy
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Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA. yancey@tennessee.edu
Stewart
C Neal
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D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011640:Public Policy; D012108:Research Personnel; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities