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“The #Trump administration has already sought to block Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, threatened its tax-exempt status & probed its acceptance of foreign donations.
#Harvard has twice sued & is awaiting a judge's ruling in a case arguing that the federal government improperly cut $2.2 billion in funding.”

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#USA #USpol #universities #MobsterPresident

~ Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard's Patents

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Lutnick told Garber that he had until Sept. 5 to respond with a list of all patents that have stemmed from federally funded research grants and to provide information showing it complied with federal regulations, including a 1980 act by Congress known as Bayh-Dole that allowed institutions to retain ownership of a patent even if the innovation used taxpayer dollars.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Accessed: 8 August 2025 at 2015 PST

Harvard has more than 5,800 patents, according to its website. In its fiscal year ended in June, the university was issued 159 patents. Startups from Harvard range from pharma and biotech companies to manufacturing.
Federal regulations under Bayh-Dole require a litany of disclosures for a patent, including how the American people benefit from an invention.
If a patent holder fails to make these disclosures, the government has the right to take ownership of the invention.
Lisa Ouellette, a law professor at Stanford, said the Trump administration's move appears to be unprecedented in the four and a half decades of the Bayh-Dole Act. "I have never seen the government step in to reclaim control of a university's patents in any sense," she said. The Biden administration considered using a provision of the act to try to lower
pharmaceutical prices, but the proposal never came to pass, Ouellette said.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Accessed: 8 August 2025 at 2015 PST

The Trump administration has been in talks with several universities, including the University of California, Los Angeles, Cornell and Northwestern, and sees striking a deal with Harvard as an essential mission. The White House has already reached a $200 million settlement with Columbia and a $50 million deal with Brown.
Talks with Harvard and Trump administration officials have sputtered on and off in recent weeks, though they had engaged in negotiations as recently as this past week, a person familiar with the negotiations said. Harvard declined to comment on the talks.
The Trump administration has already sought to block Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, threatened its tax-exempt status and probed its acceptance of foreign donations.
Harvard has twice sued and is awaiting a judge's ruling in a case arguing that the federal government improperly cut $2.2 billion in funding.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Accessed: 8 August 2025 at 2015 PST

Now the mobster president might steal Harvard’s patents—

“worth hundreds of millions of dollars”—

“A Harvard spokesperson called the move ‘yet another retaliatory effort targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom.’”

#USA #USpol #trump #HigherEd #MobsterPresident #Harvard

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

The Trump administration is warning Harvard University that it could take over its patents, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, if a review finds the university hasn't complied with federal law, an escalation of the continuing negotiations between the White House and America's oldest
university.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Accessed: 8 August 2025 at 2015 PST

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sent a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on
Friday, telling him the administration planned to do a thorough review of all patents held by the university.
"We believe that Harvard has failed to live up to its obligations to the American taxpayer and is in breach of the statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements tied to Harvard's federally funded research programs and intellectual property arising therefrom, including patents," the letter says.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Accessed: 8 August 2025 at 2015 PST

A Harvard spokesperson called the move "yet another retaliatory effort targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom." The university's technology and patents help save lives and redefine industries, and Harvard is committed to complying with all federal laws around the patenting of work from federally funded research, the spokesperson said.
The letter is another point of leverage for the Trump administration in its effort to punish the university for allegedly failing to stop antisemitism on campus. The administration has frozen billions of dollars in Harvard's federal research money and cut the university off from future grants.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Accessed: 8 August 2025 at 2015 PST

Now the mobster president might steal Harvard’s patents—

“worth hundreds of millions of dollars”

#USA #USpol #trump #HigherEd #MobsterPresident #Harvard

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over
Harvard's Patents
The move is the latest escalation in the White House's battle with the Ivy League school.

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

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Also—

#UCLA would give the #Trump admin $1 billion to get $584 million in frozen research funding back (and be allowed to get future federal funding).

He is using his power to get cold, hard cash from UCLA (cha-ching 💰).
What kind of horrible person does that?

#MyThoughts #USA #HigherEd #MobsterPresident

#Extortion
#Shakedown
#MobsterPresident

This will not end.

How long until the dictator threatens his own nation with US military weaponry?
https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/114994726011017871

#Extortion
#MobsterPresident
#DeathToDemocracy https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xvr6x3yam5mq4a6q2suxbt5u/post/3lvr7lbawjl2p

#Corruption
#CriminalInCheif
#MobsterPresident
https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/114956973505086311

America has traded “the world’s policeman” for “the world’s mobster”

“The best deals…”

“That’s a nice country you have there where it hasn’t been turned to rubble by my ally neighbor of yours seeking to annex even more of your sovereign nation. It would be a shame if something were to happen and we could no longer protect you. I’m sure you can find a way to continue to show your loyalty to someone who helps you so much”

#GangsterGovernment
#ProtectionRacket
#MobsterPresident
#Extortion
#PutinsPuppet
#Dictator
#Criminal
#Fraud
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/17/revealed-trump-confidential-plan-ukraine-stranglehold/

#MobsterPresident

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