Shanks v Unilever: £2m Supreme Court ruling paves way for disgruntled inventors
The UK Supreme Court has today, October 23 ruled that an academic is entitled to £2 million ($2.57 million) as a fair share of the benefit derived from his glucose testing inventions by his then-employer, Unilever.
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