Yale University Wins Nobel Prize Winning Patent
The dispute with former Yale professor and Nobel Laureate John B. Fenn over a Nobel Prize winning invention has ended. Yale University was assigned ownership of a key patent and awarded $1 million in damages. John B. Fenn shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for his work in mass spectrometry.
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Fenn filed a disclosure to Yale while still working for them, and Yale decided not to file the patent. After Fenn was terminated for mandatory 70 age, he filed the patent for himself. Now Yale says Fenn wasn’t as persuasive as he should have been when he tried to get Yale to file the patent. Can you believe the Judge bought Yale’s crap?
Comment by George Lester — 2/25/2005 @ 5:25 am