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Adam Hayes

is an Associate at Morningside IP. He works with numerous Fortune 500 clients and international patent firms to establish best practices and advise on foreign filing options. Adam has helped numerous companies lower their foreign filing costs and streamline their filing processes to help reduce the administrative burden of multinational filing. Adam received a degree in History, with a minor in Economics from the State University of New York College at Oswego.

Recent Articles by Adam Hayes

When Universities Patent Their Research

A few months ago, a judge ordered Apple to pay the University of Wisconsin $506 million for infringing one of its tech patents. Last year, Carnegie-Mellon University won $750 million in a patent infringement lawsuit against Marvell Technology Group. With such big-money patent cases in the news, you might think that owning a patent can create a major windfall of profit for universities. While this has proven true for a handful of institutions, the truth is that most universities actually make little or no money from licensing the inventions they produce.