ABSTRACT
There was actually a time, not so long ago, when academic researchers regarded the patenting of their discoveries as unseemly-a contemptible affront to the mission of science. Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin, and John Enders did not seek to claim ownership of their pioneering polio vaccine research in the 1940s and 1950s. Cesar Milstein, who shared a Nobel Prize for helping develop monoclonal antibody technology in 1975, did not even ask if the method should be patented.
