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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