Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public
When is the taxpayer going to be given the right to use inventions funded with their own money?<p>It's pretty terrible that some academic can take public money to fund his research, then take out a patent on the result and prevent his financiers from using an 'invention'.<p>Actually, the most stupid part about the whole thing it is that the <i>government</i> gets some rights to use these publicly-funded patented inventions. (As if the government, not the taxpayer funded it)