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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe I disagree with your groundless suggestion that partnerships between universities and patent firms are “unseemly” (_Nature_ 501, 471–472;
2013). Such partnerships stand to increase the rewards and level of protection for inventors, which are, after all, the purposes of a patent. Some critics argue that a university's
mission should be to disseminate knowledge — in which case, universities are free simply to publish their inventions without patenting them or to seek a patent and offer a free licence. But
others choose to patent their inventions to recoup their research dollars and reward their inventors, as the US Bayh–Dole Act encourages. Companies such as Intellectual Ventures in Bellevue,
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