From Mass Device, which offers news and analysis about the local medical device industry:
The Mass. Institute of Technology is suing Still River Systems Inc. for rights to the company’s technology.
The school filed a complaint Dec. 17 in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts alleging that the Littleton, Mass.-based radiation-therapy developer incorrectly left an MIT researcher out of a patent granted to the company’s founder and CTO, Kenneth Gall, in June.
MIT demanded that it be named as an owner or co-owner of patent 7,728,311, “Charged Particle Radiation Therapy,” because of its rights to the work of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center research engineer Timothy Antaya, whom the school alleges to have conceived one or more of the inventions in the patent, according to the court documents.