March 23, 2017
The Federal Circuit ruled Thursday that a judge correctly rejected what she called a "jaw-dropping" request for $8 million in attorneys' fees from a German research institute after a failed patent suit by the University of Utah, saying she explained why the case did not stand out.
September 28, 2015
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday ended a long-running inventorship dispute finding that observations made by a University of Utah professor over dinner and in a scientific review article didn't merit a co-inventorship credit on a lucrative group of gene silencing patents.
June 13, 2012
The University of Utah can proceed with its complaint to include one of its faculty as a listed inventor on patents for groundbreaking genetic treatment technology held by a group of research consortiums and universities, including the University of Massachusetts, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday.
March 23, 2011
The University of Utah filed a lawsuit against several institutions Tuesday in Massachusetts, claiming one of its scientists invented the genetic treatment technology recently at the heart of litigation in the scientific community.