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Trump administration threatens to strip Harvard University of lucrative patents
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2025
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This is a great policy, but done for a horrible reason. Corporatized universities run like hedge funds profiting off public research is a scandal and the feds should use march in rights to make a whole bunch of stuff public domain or easily licensed, but having the executive wield this power selectively as a way to punish political enemies isn’t the way to do it.