Empowering the inventor--the case of monoclonal antibodies

Mike Clark1

  • 1University of Cambridge, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK. mrc7@cam.ac.uk

Nature Biotechnology
|September 10, 2005
PubMed

Academic ownership of intellectual property facilitated wide dissemination and commercialization of antibody technology. Moves at the University of Cambridge to reclaim institutional IP rights should thus be treated with caution.