{"id":749093,"date":"2022-07-18T05:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=249719"},"modified":"2022-07-18T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:51:12","slug":"public-university-patents-are-a-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/18\/public-university-patents-are-a-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"Public University Patents are a Racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I gave you a million dollars to invent a better mousetrap, and told you that if you succeeded you could keep any and all profits associated with the invention, you&#8217;d probably consider that a pretty good deal. But if I gave your neighbor Bob a million dollars of YOUR money to invent that mousetrap,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/18\/public-university-patents-are-a-racket\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/18\/public-university-patents-are-a-racket\/\">Public University Patents are a Racket<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/07\/18\/public-university-patents-are-a-racket\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I gave you a million dollars to invent a better mousetrap, and told you that if you succeeded you could keep any and all profits associated with the invention, you&#8217;d probably consider that a pretty good deal. But if I gave your neighbor Bob a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749094,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749093\/revisions\/749094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}