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May 8, 2007
Biotech Patenting Increasingly Dominated by Universities
Some interesting data in a new biotech report from Marks and Clerk in the U.K. Among other things, academic patent filing outpaced biotech industry filing by 51% between 2002 and 2006, and it is now to the point that only one of the top five patent assignees in the world is a corporate:
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I don't know about the US, but here in the UK the government are now using the number of patents granted to a university as one of the inputs to a formula that calculates its research rating. The obvious has happened and I have spoken to two (I'm sure there are lots more) university employees who are offering to fund researchers to obtain patents on their work solely with the aim of improving their university rating.