The suit claims the professor stole university-owned inventions, "sold them to industry" and assisted companies in commercializing them.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.A former Missouri university professor is being sued for allegedly stealing a pharmaceutical student's research and then selling the invention for more than $1.5 million.
The university said it owns the rights to inventions and research done by employees and faculty while they are working for the school. “All of this occurred without any disclosure to — let alone approval from — the university,” the lawsuit claims.“I can unequivocally prove that this invention was conceptualized and produced by myself and the rightful co-creators,” he wrote. “Dr. Kishore Cholkar is an accomplished student of mine who wrote a paper on other aspects of the Cyclosporine formulation after the patent had already been submitted to the FDA for approval.
clarify how a student is an employee of umkc..?
LEX18News Sounds familiar. Benjamin Franklin, and many others stole someone else's ideas, and made it their own.
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