Ex-professor loses appeal of intellectual property case brought by University of Missouri
JEFFERSON CITY • A state appeals court sided with the University of Missouri Tuesday in a decade-long case involving a professor who filed multiple patent applications without giving ownership rights to the university.
Galen Suppes, a former MU chemical engineering professor, had appealed a 2017 Boone County jury decision in which he was ordered to pay $600,000 in damages to the university for violating his contract as he developed technology involving a non-toxic substitute for antifreeze.
Under UM rules, a university employee must disclose all inventions made while using university facilities. In the lawsuit, attorneys argued that the technology developed by Suppes was developed with university equipment on university property, and thus belonged to the university.
Suppes argued in his appeal that there was insufficient evidence showing that he had breached his contractual duties to the university.
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