Thursday, September 18, 2008

Intellectual property and researching in a university

While I engaged in an assignment for the subject "Research Commercialization" in this semester, I searched about how the intellectual property rights are applied to our research outcomes. In many universities, we, as research PhD students or research fellows, are bound by the rules of the university. I found this intellectual property rights case in the very country that I'm studying right now. Ultimately the court decided who is the real owner of the invention. It's the researcher, though he has used the university resources. May be the result of the case is dependent on that particular context but not in any case in the future. Here you find the story in short and here you'll see more details.

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