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Richard P. Grant rgrant at netscape.net
Fri Jul 28 02:22:49 EST 2000


In article <87aef2j23y.fsf at genehack.org>, "John S. J. Anderson" 
<jacobs+usenet at genehack.org> wrote:

> What are the rules concerning money made from patents on knowledge
> gained by public funding? That seems to be the appropriate comparison
> here.

I'm not sure there are global 'rules'.  Apparently here at the MRC, the 
MRC itself would take the lion's share, but the inventor(s) get a not 
unreasonable cut, personally.  And we have a technology transfer unit 
set up to deal with the patent process, so I guess that's fair.

R

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