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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">I think that used to be the case. Googling “university sues ip –RIAA -internet” generates a few interesting hits (CalTech, Univ of New Mexico are two tech related ones). IP has become more important to universities over the last decade or so.<br>
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Picking schools not my own :) I see that the University of Colorado’s OTT has generated anywhere from 22M to 2.8M a year in the last 5 years.<br>
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<a href="https://www.cu.edu/techtransfer/downloads/FY09-10_metrics.pdf">https://www.cu.edu/techtransfer/downloads/FY09-10_metrics.pdf</a><br>
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MIT’s TLO generated $76.2M in FY2010.<br>
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<a href="http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/about/faq.html#a1">http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/about/faq.html#a1</a><br>
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Most of that is patents but there’s usually a section titled software stuck in there somewhere (typically generating very little). Filing IP disclosures to their tech office (even for software) is now a much more common thing among academics.<br>
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On 12/15/10 10:19 AM, "Cinly Ooi" <<a href="cooi@theiet.org">cooi@theiet.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">The 'research community only' clause is generally treated as a gentleman agreement. I don't think anyone has the appetite to test it in a law court. The closest analogy is the 'please do not distribute' plea to customers for the net probe you mentioned earlier. Ethically we honour it, but legally speaking it is a very muddy field.<br>
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