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23 October 2019PatentsRory O'Neill

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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