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Stanford v. Roche 563 U.S. ___ (2011) was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that title in a patented invention vests first in the inventor even if the inventor is a researcher at a federally funded lab subject to the 1980 Bayh–Dole Act. The judges affirmed the common understanding of US Constitutional law that inventors originally own inventions they make and contractual obligations to assign those rights to third parties are secondary.