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Re:Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Profess... by wapoamspomw on Sunday February 03, 2019 @09:03PM (#19073444)
From the article:

>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.

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Re:Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Profess... by jaak on Sunday February 03, 2019 @11:32PM (#19074021)
I'm curious as to who funded the research in the first place.
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Re:Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Profess... by jtd514 on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:05AM (#19075615)
MIT. MIT is not a university, it is a private corporation which monetizes the research it discovers.
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Re:Ford Stole Tech for Best-Selling Trucks from MIT, Profess... by gotocake on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:21AM (#19076520)
MIT is also a university; the two elements of their existence are orthogonal, not mutually exclusive.
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