Cambridge attempts to hold patents for professors' ideas

Sunday, September 1, 2002

LONDON -- In the quiet stone halls of Cambridge University, a distinctly 21st century battle is brewing over a question that has vexed academic institutions around the world. Who owns faculty members' ideas -- some of them very profitable?

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