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No implied term that university owns employees' inventions, court rules

A full bench of the Federal Court has dismissed the University of Western Australia's claim on the rights to a cancer treatment developed by its former professor of surgery, ruling there was no implied term in his contract of employment that gave it ownership of his inventions.

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