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Published online 12 March 2008 | Nature 452, 146 (2008) | doi:10.1038/452146a
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Business: Stepping out
A surprisingly large number of university-inspired patents may be going to industry instead. Rex Dalton reports.
patent battles go, it seemed one never to be repeated. In 1999, the Californian biotechnology company Genentech resolved a long-running law suit with the University of California.
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