By Jack Radford Pitcock, UTRF Legal Extern In Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith, the U.S. Supreme Court recently made a significant ruling defining the extent of fair use to copyright infringement. Copyright is the legal right given to a creator to print, publish, sell, license, perform, film, or record their literary, artistic, or musical materials, (read more)
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Inventor Spotlight: Todd Reynolds and Jordan Cannon
Plastic pollution is a significant, growing problem facing the environment. Two researchers from the University of Tennessee are developing novel microbial enzymes to help answer the question: Is there a way to create more environmentally friendly plastics? Todd Reynolds is a professor in UT Knoxville’s Department of Microbiology. Jordan Cannon is a doctoral student in (read more)
UTRF startup, BASEwise Solutions advance quantitative genotyping and metagenome profiling
Bode Olukolu is an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who co-founded a startup, BASEwise Solutions, to bring to market his technology, OmeSeq-qRRS, a next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based reduced representation sequencing (RRS) platform for genotyping and metagenome profiling. Unlike other approaches, Olukolu’s technology only sequences a (read more)