Law360, New York (October 03, 2011, 1:23 PM ET) -- Much commentary respecting Stanford v. Roche, 563 U.S. ___ (June 6, 2011) (No. 09-1159) has focused on the holding that declined to construe the Bayh-Dole Act to award employers with superior ownership rights in the inventions of their employees. Implicit in the decision is an unrealized potential that could nevertheless have secured Stanford the result that the university hoped federal law would award.
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