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wapoamspomw on Feb 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, ...

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>The professors transferred ownership of their creations to MIT, one of the premier U.S. research universities, which then granted exclusive patent-licensing rights to a small company the three men founded, Ethanol Boosting Systems LLC. EBS offered to license patents on the enhancements to Ford in 2014, but the company declined.

If EBS doesn't get paid, then MIT doesn't get paid.

jaak on Feb 4, 2019 [–]

I'm curious as to who funded the research in the first place.

jtd514 on Feb 4, 2019 | [–]

MIT. MIT is not a university, it is a private corporation which monetizes the research it discovers.

gotocake on Feb 4, 2019 | | [–]

MIT is also a university; the two elements of their existence are orthogonal, not mutually exclusive.

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