Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard’s Patents
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- Publish Date:
- August 8, 2025
- Author(s):
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- Andrews, Natalie ,
- Randazzo, Sara
- Source:
- The Wall Street Journal
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Summary
Lisa Ouellette, a law professor at Stanford, said the Trump administration’s move appears to be unprecedented in the four and a half decades of the Bayh-Dole Act. “I have never seen the government step in to reclaim control of a university’s patents in any sense,” she said. The Biden administration considered using a provision of the act to try to lower pharmaceutical prices, but the proposal never came to pass, Ouellette said.
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