A recent Australian legal decision means that, unless faculty members are bound by an assignment or intellectual property policy, they may own inventions resulting from their research.
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McBratney, A., Tarr, JA. Faculty and employee ownership of inventions in Australia. Nat Biotechnol 28, 1019–1022 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1010-1019
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