If a student comes up with an invention as part of a college class, who owns the rights to the invention, student? University? Both?
It's a sticky subject that has already come up several times, because there's potentially a lot of money on the line.
The tension led to the creation of Students For Intellectual Property, which advocates for the student rights to the things they create for college work. Founder Caleb Carr visits with word of recent cases and the general trend in student-university relations over IP.