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Nature 405, 989 (29 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35016725

...but controversy over rights lingers on

Rex Dalton

A patent at the centre of a heated court battle over tools used for research into Alzheimer's disease (see above) itself emerged from a controversial arrangement between an expatriate British scientist and a public university in Florida. In addition, a Swedish research team argues that it should have shared in the rights.