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A fight over intellectual property in the Legislature. Not at all like a brace of vegetarians arguing over a piece of steak

There’s a new front in the war over whether the University of Georgia Research Foundation, which controls that insitution’s intellectual property, can sell licenses for brands of turf its created.

H.B. 606 would rip away from Georgia’s universities the power to grant licenses from discoveries made in their laboratories, and give it to a new State Intellectual Properties Board.

This measure is said to have legs. With millions, perhaps billions, of dollars at stake, look for a big, big fight.

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