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The article discusses the involvement of universities including the University of Washington, Washington State University and the Washington's two-year-college system in the lawsuit which temporarily blocked U.S. president Donald Trump's executive order which prohibited travelers from certain Muslim countries to enter U.S. It highlights the opinions of the vice president for international programs at Washington, Asif Chaudhry and vice provost at the University of Washington, Jeffrey Riedinger.

Reports on a legal battle between the University of Rochester in New York State and pharmaceutical companies due to the patent applications of the university for its biomedical discovery. Risks involved in pursuing the battle against pharmaceutical companies; Implication of the commitment of the university to go against companies involved in the case; Attempt of the companies to invalidate the patent.

The article discusses a fine for the for-profit college firm Corinthian Colleges Inc. by the U.S. Department of Education for purported misrepresentation of job-placement statistics of graduates. Topics include accreditation standards for for-profit colleges, a lawsuit against Corinthian by California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris, and allegations of fraud by Corinthian's Heald College.

Reports that two researchers at the University of Minnesota will receive $300 million in royalties after the settlement of its lawsuit against Glaxo-Wellcome. Filing of the lawsuit for Glaxo's alleged violation of patent rights; Alleged violation of Professor Robert Vince's patented anti-viral drugs; Inclusion of royalties on worldwide sales.

Reports on the lawsuit filed by the University of California in San Francisco against Genentech Inc. Claims of the university that Genentech is in patent violation of one of the world's first genetically engineered growth hormones, Protopin; History of the case; The deadlock decision of the case; The next stage of the lawsuit; Examples of conflicting testimonies; Implications of the case.

Reports on a Michigan court's ruling regarding Wayne State University chemistry professor A. Paul Schaap's appropriation of a trade secret from chemist Irena Bronstein. Schaap's incorporation of the trade secret into his own patent application; Schaap's establishment of Lumigen Inc.; Bronstein's plans to seek damages from Wayne State University and Lumigen.

Reports on Antioch University's lawsuit against Florida state regarding the alleged damage of the Hugh Taylor Birch State Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Selling of Indiana University's ranch; Opposition in the establishment of a shopping center in Charlotte; Economic development in the community; Speculations about Antioch's motives.

Looks at the controversy surrounding Boston University's ties to biotechnology company Seragen. Class action lawsuit against the university; Acquisition of the company by Ligand Pharmaceuticals; University chancellor John R. Silber expected to be named a defendant in the lawsuit.

The article reports on a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against for-profit career education provider Corinthian Colleges Inc.

The article reports on a U.S. federal class-action lawsuit filed by several patients with Fabry disease against the biotechnology company Genzyme Corporation and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine regarding their failure to produce a sufficient amount of the drug Fabrazyme to treat the patients. It examines the patent laws associated with university medicinal drug research, discusses the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act, and explores the role the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plays in the lawsuit.

The article discusses Stanford v. Roche, a U.S. Supreme Court case in which Stanford University is suing the research company Roche Molecular Systems Inc. for alleged patent infringement. The case questions how patent rights and profits from research done at universities should be handled under the U.S. Bayh-Dole Act and presents comments from Supreme Court associate justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John G. Roberts on the case.

The article discusses the details surrounding a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities against the U.S. Department of Education. The lawsuit alleges that regulations proposed by the Education Department regarding the student recruiting practices, compensation system, and distance education oversight of U.S. for-profit colleges are unconstitutional.

The article discusses a court case in which a federal court ruled for the plaintiff, Eli Lilly and Company, who had appealed a ruling validating a patent held by researchers at Harvard University,Massachusetts Institute of technology, and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, saying patents are for practical procedures, not basic research.

The article discusses a lawsuit by former admissions counselors of the University of Phoenix under the federal False Claims Act, accusing the university of obtaining federal student aid funds under false pretenses. In such cases, the parties bringing the suit, or whistle-blowers, generally receive about 15 percent of the proceeds. The suit, originally for $1.5 billion, is expected by the Apollo Group, Inc., the university's corporate partner, to be settled for about $80.5 million.

The article discusses a court case wherein three former University of Phoenix students are seeking class-action status for a federal lawsuit, which accuses the university of using improper tactics to minimize its record on student-loan defaults. According to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Arkansas, the school "pays off" the loans of students who withdraw then demands repayment under worse terms than the original loans. A response from the university is given.

The article discusses news concerning universities and colleges. Yale University will pay the United States federal government to settle charges that its personnel mismanaged grants by improperly charging expenses. Distance educator Bridgepoint Education is planning to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.

The article discusses a lawsuit between the University of Kansas and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) over the anti-cancer drug Velcade. The university is claiming that two of its researchers contributed to the making of Velcade and that the researchers and the school should be given recognition. However, the patent only lists one NIH scientist as the inventor. Depending on the outcome of the case, the existing patent could be found invalid if it is believed that the two University of Kansas researchers were not included.

This article reports on charges filed against Ben H. Wilcox, the former dean at Kaplan University who accused the institution of defrauding taxpayers in a whistle-blower lawsuit. He has been indicted on charges that he hacked into Kaplan's computer network to send harassing mass electronic mail messages to students and threats to three individuals. The federal indictment, handed up by a grand jury in Chicago, Illinois, accuses Wilcox of six criminal counts of unlawfully using telecommunications devices to transmit threats and harassing messages across state lines.

The article reports on the for-profit university Kaplan University and a lawsuit filed by former employees who accuse the institution of defrauding the United States government of $4 billion dollars. The author states that three former employees, Ben H. Wilcox, Jude Gillespie, and Carlos Urquilla-Diaz, filed the suit in the U.S. district court in Tampa, Florida. The suit alleges that Kaplan admitted unqualified students, falsified grades, and falsified documentation in order to maintain their accreditation.

The article presents news briefs of publicly traded higher-education companies. Corinthian Colleges Inc. has agreed to pay money in order to avoid a lawsuit by the State of California following an investigation into whether its colleges misled students about job-placement rates and career opportunities. For-profit colleges in Ohio defeated a proposal from Governor Ted Strickland that would have barred students from participating in the state's tuition-grant program.

The article looks at how an emeritus professor of business from the University of Georgia says an international textbook publisher and the for-profit University of Phoenix have been knowingly using content without permission from a textbook he wrote, as well as selling unauthorized versions of the book. In a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Georgia, Patrick G. McKeown alleges that Thomson Corporation sold a customized electronic version of his book, "Information Technology and the Networked Economy," to the University of Phoenix. The suit also charges that the university, owned by Apollo Group Inc., is using the online version of the book as the basis for its online courses.

The article reports that the patenting foundation for Iowa State University has sued the Monsanto Company over low-fat soybeans, asserting that a variety of soybean being sold by the company infringes two patents for low-fat soybeans issued to Iowa State professors in the 1990s. Monsanto officials deny that their product infringes the patents, maintaining that it was developed using publicly available soybean DNA. The lawsuit does not specify what amount the foundation is seeking in damages.

The article reports that the United States Department of Justice has decided not to bring charges against the Career Education Corporation, one of the United States' largest operators of for-profit colleges, after three years of investigation. The investigation, which reportedly revolved around allegations of fraud, was triggered by a lawsuit filed by whistle-blowers who seek damages from the company under the federal False Claims Act. The lawsuit required the Justice Department to determine whether the federal government should be involved in the suit.

The article reports that the United States Supreme Court has declined a request from the University of Phoenix to intervene in a whistle-blower lawsuit that was filed against the institution by Mary Hendow and Julie Albertson, two former admissions officers. The women claim that the University of Phoenix falsely certified that it was complying with all federal guidelines when it applied for Pell Grant money and other federal funds. Before the case can proceed it must be approved by Judge Garland E. Burrell of Sacramento, California.

The article discusses federal fraud charges faced by Charleston Southern University professor Albert E. Parish Jr. Authorities claim that Parish, an economics professor, defrauded about 300 investors through three investment companies he runs. Charleston Southern University is one of the investors Parish bilked and is suing him and his wife for $10.7 million. The university invested nearly $5.4 million of its endowment and $5.3 million from its operating budget into funds run by Parish Economics LLC. Parish claims that he has developed amnesia and has no recollection of his investment practices.

The article reports that the Career College Association is lending its support to the University of Phoenix in its bid to get the United States Supreme Court to halt a whistle-blower lawsuit against the institution. The for-profit University of Phoenix faces liability of more than $1-billion in the case, which was brought by two former admissions recruiters. They allege that the university improperly obtained federal student-aid money by paying recruiters on the basis of how many students they enrolled, while also certifying that it was in compliance with federal laws.

The article discusses a lawsuit involving Purdue University and Stephen F. Badylak, who is being accused by the university of lying, theft, and patent infringement. The article explains that Badylak was the leader of a research team at Purdue that discovered a technology for healing tissue and organs that has helped tens of thousands of patients and brought in millions in royalties. According to Purdue, Badylak stole research data from the university and secretly helped one of his collaborators develop a tissue-engineering invention, which failed to give credit to Purdue on its patent. Badylak asserts that Purdue's claims are false.

The article looks at how the University of Missouri has been strongly rebuffed by a federal appeals court for trying to avoid a company's challenge to one of its patents by claiming immunity from lawsuits under the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the university had given up its right to immunity because it had effectively begun a federal legal process when it asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to intervene in a dispute over a patent in a courtlike process known as a patent "interference."

The article looks at how Duke University has returned a powerful research laser to the physicist who created it, John M. J. Madey, which quietly put an end to a lengthy legal battle. The case produced a 2002 U.S. federal-court ruling that re-established the legal principle that university research is not exempt from patent law. The last parts of the laser were delivered to Madey at the University of Hawaii-Manoa, where he now works. Madey has long maintained that the delays had cost him valuable time in pursuing his research in using the laser to detect bioagents and other dangerous materials.

The article reports that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued the University of Phoenix for religious discrimination against non-Mormon employees who work as student recruiters. The EEOC lawsuit, filed on behalf of four recruiters, says the university discriminated by giving the most promising "leads" to recruiters who were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In addition to the allegations of discrimination in the awarding of leads, the EEOC lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix, accuses University of Phoenix of denying tuition waivers--a popular employee perk--to the four recruiters and other non-Mormons.

This article reports that a Florida State University's professor whose patents for an anticancer drug have produced more than $210-million for the university, sued the institution last week. He said that the university, based in Tallahassee, Florida, had reneged on agreements to build a new laboratory building and to fill it with dozens of new researchers in synthetic chemistry. The professor, Robert A. Holton, who had already donated $11-million toward the building, said he had taken the legal action reluctantly. The lawsuit is the latest salvo in a dispute that began last summer, when Florida State's president, T.K. Wetherell, scrapped plans for the building.

This article reports that a federal judge has dismissed a major shareholder lawsuit filed against ITT Educational Services Inc. and 10 of its current and former board members and executives. The plaintiffs are current and former shareholders who had accused ITT of manipulating enrollment and financial records and falsifying grades from October 2002 until March 2004 to make the company appear to be more profitable than it really was and to avoid being disqualified from federal student-aid programs. The plaintiffs were seeking millions in damages in compensation for losses they incurred when the price of ITT stock dropped precipitously after news that the company was under a federal investigation became public.

This article reports that Columbia University of New York City is winding down a legal fight with biotechnology companies that sued the university in 2003 and accused it of illegitimately trying to extend its monopoly on a research discovery patented in the early 1980s. Over the past five months, the university has resolved its disputes with all but one of the companies that had been pursuing the case. The most recent settlement, with Biogen Idec Inc. and the Genzyme Corp., came early last month, according to Columbia's lawyer, David I. Gindler. The university settled with Genetics Institute LLC, Wyeth, Amgen Inc., and Immunex in July, and with Johnson & Johnson in March. Gindler said that the last plaintiff, Genentech, had one remaining claim against Columbia that remains unresolved.

The article reports that Career Education Corp., one of the biggest for-profit higher-education companies in the U.S., disclosed last month that the Department of Education had put a freeze on approving new applications for additional campuses or acquisitions while it examines the company's financial records and compliance with federal student-aid regulations. Career Education already faces lawsuits from stockholders who say they suffered financially because the company did not promptly disclose information that could be relevant to its financial performance.

Reports on the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in a case about the rights of pharmaceutical makers to use another party's patented material in the course of developing new drugs without infringing the patent. Involvement of several universities and academic organizations in the case; Background on the case involving Merck KGaA and Integra LifeSciences I Ltd.; Remarks from a spokesman for the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation regarding the case.

Reports on the ruling of the California Court of Appeals in Los Angeles stating that the University of Southern California could be liable to its research sponsor for lost profits. Reaction of universities to the ruling; Views of Jens Koepke, a lawyer in Los Angeles who represents Sargon Enterprises, on the decision of the court; Potential donation of Sargon to the university according to the court filings.

Reports the settlement of a securities fraud lawsuit filed against energy company Dynegy Inc. by the University of California. Cost of the settlement; Details of the case.

Presents news briefs on universities and colleges in the U.S. as of March 2005. Suggestion of panelists during the League for Innovation in the Community College's Innovations conference regarding the role of institutional-research offices in campuses; Information on the result of a survey conducted by the Society for College and University Planning regarding the usable space in private and public colleges and universities; Background on a lawsuit filed against Florida colleges owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. for a grade-changing allegations.

Reports on the ruling of the U.S. District Court in Hartford, Connecticut on a patent suit filed by Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut against Nobel laureate John B. Fenn. Amount of damages to be paid by Fenn to the university; Facts of the case; Claims of the university.

Reports on the demand of the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education for the Career Education Corp., parent company of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, to respond to questions that the company describes as compliance issues. Possible consequence if the corporation will not respond to the agency's demand; Defense of the company in acknowledging the inquiry; Accusations against Brooks by the agency as detailed in a report.

Reports on the decision of Judge Mark L. Wolf regarding a case filed against the biotechnology patents of Columbia University in New York City. Overview of the plaintiffs of the case, including biotechnology firms Biogen Idec and Genentech; Statement issued by the plaintiffs on the outcome of the case; Information on a pending patent application of the university for its co-transformation technique.

Reports on the decision of a federal court of appeals in Texas on the lawsuit filed by Susan Newman and Dan Graves, former recruiters of ITT Educational Services Inc., against the company for fraud. Allegations of Newman and Graves against the company; Details of the case; Scope of the False Claims Act.

Presents news briefs on financial issues in the higher education sector in the U.S. as of July 2004. Amendments to the lawsuit filed by a shareholder against Career Education Corp. in June 2004; Performance of investments in foundations in the U.S. in 2003; Plea given by Kenneth E. Hillier, former chief financial officer of the University of Florida Foundation, to instances of embezzlement from foundation accounts.

Focuses on the legal cases involving IBM. Information on Richard W. Clapp's study of cancer risks among semiconductor workers at IBM manufacturing plants; Claims of Christopher Andrews, an IBM spokesman, against the study conducted by Clapp; Details of the lawsuits filed against IBM by former workers and their families.

Focuses on a lawsuit filed by the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania against CTI Molecular Imaging Inc. and its subsidiary, CTI PET Systems Inc. for selling a positron emission tomography (PET), a medical technology used to diagnose early-stage cancer, neurological disorders, and heart disease. Capabilities of PET technology; Charges filed by the university; Estimated cost of the technology.

Reports on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to decline to consider an appeal by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in a dispute with a former faculty member over its use of a device that he invented. Impact of the decision on research using tools that are covered by patents; Number of supporters of Duke urging the court to take the case; Source of dispute between the former faculty and Duke.

Reports on the lawsuit filed by Genentech Inc. against Columbia University in April 2003 in a U.S. District Court in California to keep the institution from asserting patent infringement against the company. Overview of the lawsuit; Reaction of the university to the lawsuit.

Reports on the ruling of a U.S. district court judge on the patent infringement case filed by the University of Rochester against Pharmacia Corp. and Pfizer Inc. in New York. Background on the case; Basis of the ruling on the case; Comments from the university on the decision.

Reports on the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit on the patent lawsuit against Duke University filed by John M.J. Madey, a physicist and inventor. Reason for the decision of Madey to sue his former university for patent infringement; Information on the experimental use exception as a defense to claims of patent infringement; Impact of the ruling on universities.

Presents updates on universities and colleges in the U.S. as of September 2002. Implementation of budget cuts by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; Decision of a U.S. federal judge to order American Cyanamid to pay damages to the University of Colorado; Agreement of the University of California system to settle its claims against Andersen Worldwide SC.