Bill & Pookie wrote:

> Now I think you are asked to sigh a form upon admission that gives the 
> medical center rights to everything.

If it were that simple... If you're interested, read the NYT article Mike
posted a link for. Apparently the issue is that very few of those involved
on the money end (universities, pharma companies, congress) has an interest
in /really/ clearing this up -- seemingly because it is feared that once
you open the issue, starting with describing current and past practices and
the sometimes "inconvenient" consequences, the public wouldn't like that
and any clarification of how things should work is then likely to be
different from how they do work. So they don't clarify this... and leave it
up to the courts. (So they can then complain about judges making policy,
but that's a different issue :)

> It is not much money, yet ,but does pay for nice wigs for my poor bald
> dog. 

Exactly... well deserved :)

Gerhard

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