In general, I welcome the day when universities get what is coming to them for this kind of stuff (see also: Marvell vs CMU for 300+ million, reduced from 1.5 billion on appeal, etc).<p>In particular, given how much industry funds them, collaborates with their professors, etc, what is going on now is a <i>remarkably stupid</i> approach mostly driven by tech transfer offices that want to prove their value.<p>Which will be &quot;zero&quot;, once the tech industry starts cutting them off.