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Anyone know why Harvard and Stanford not on the list?

• Apocryphon 12y ago
  Maybe their endowments are big enough for them to not care about having to resort to patents to pay their faculty?
  • josefresco 12y ago
    Ding ding ding!
  • will_brown 12y ago
    I would have thought you are correct. Harvard is sitting on $32B and Stanford $18.7B in tax-free endowments, the largest and 3rd largest endowments respectively. However, Yale is on the list and they have $20.7B (2nd largest). It does seem disingenuous for Yale to claim "[t]he prospect of substantially increased financial risk would discourage universities and other patent holders lacking extensive litigation resources from legitimately defending their patents." Not a whole lot of businesses are sitting on +$20B in cash period, much less +$20B tax free. As a side the top 10 school endowments in 2013 = ~$141B.[1] [1] http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2015/01/13/10-universities-with-the-largest-financial-endowments http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list...