By Susan Decker, Bloomberg News
Despite a federal judge’s skepticism of a drugmaker’s attempt to shield patents by selling them to an Indian tribe, the tribe’s lawyer is inviting other organizations to take advantage of the idea.
He’s in talks with some state universities, historically black colleges and other Indian tribes with funding woes that may want a new source of revenue by using their sovereign immunity to inoculate patents from being challenged at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
“It wasn’t controversial until a Native American tribe did it,” said Michael Shore, the Dallas lawyer who set up the ...
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