I don&#x27;t know.  I kinda like the idea of public universities licensing their research and patents to raise money, and I think the public benefit there outweighs making the research public domain, by decreasing the amount of public funding needed, and&#x2F;or lowering tuition.<p>I mean, let&#x27;s be honest here, a patent like this is isn&#x27;t particularly useful to the public because almost nobody outside of a few very large corporations can afford to implement it, and they stand to make a ton of money from it.  The last thing Apple needs is publicly subsidized research.