Supreme Court rules against University in Stanford v. Roche | Stanford Daily

The U.S. Supreme Court decisively ended a decade-long patent dispute over an HIV-screening method developed by School of Medicine professor Mark Holodniy with its June 6 ruling on Stanford v. Roche that awarded patent rights to the pharmaceutical firm. In the court’s 7-2 decision, the majority opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts — dismissed Stanford’s claim...