U. Of Arkansas develops a berry-picking robot.

can it turn a double play?

*Mexico sighs*

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U. Of Arkansas develops a berry-picking robot

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Berry pickers deserve a livable wage.

What’s that? A machine can do our jobs?

Ok, never mind

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Does he get rich or does the school claim the money?

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Link says patent issued to the school so I imagine they get whatever evenue is generated.

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Baw invented, designed and made the berry picker while a student. Does he get rich or does the school claim the money?

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Depends on the school. You should ask this question when touring. For my rising engineering student, universities that told us they keep claim to student patents on inventions created while a student were instantly excluded from consideration.

I don't know Arkansas' policy, but here are two competing examples from schools we toured:

Mississippi State actively advertises that they will NOT lay claim to your patents and ideas created while a student. They will help you obtain the patent and everything. They operate under the idea that they are far better off if their engineering majors profit and then give money back to the university. Their engineering school is thriving and awesome.

UAB steals your work and will profit from it. You get nothing. This was the most extreme case we came into contact with. My rising Freshman went from wanting to attend UAB to completely removing them from the board in an instant. Note: this is not the same policy as at the main Alabama campus and appears to be a flaw specifically with UAB.

200 years too late

University of Arkansas Ag is the preeminent developer of blackberries and their fruit breeding program is phenomenal.

Margaret Worthington too over the department from Dr. John Clark who developed thornless blackberry varieties that are amazing. I have 200 thornless brambles from them and pick buckets of huge sweet blackberries.

I have several blackberry plants from U of A,some with thorns and some without.
A lot of my berries turn red when I freeze them.Maybe I’m too rough on them.

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Depends on the school. You should ask this question when touring. For my rising engineering student, universities that told us they keep claim to student patents on inventions created while a student were instantly excluded from consideration.

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Patents are easy, and a dime a dozen. There are millions of issued patents, the vast majority of which never made it into products. I have a large number of them, about 2/3rds of which made it to products. Commercialization, without which you will never make any money, is the hard part. It is a pipe dream to think some Fortune 500 will show up with a briefcase full of money for a single patent.

What you should really be asking is whether the school has the support infrastructure to nurture, mentor and build companies. There is seldom ever one single patent that makes a business or breaks it. It is always a family of patents, many of which come as part of the commercialization process, after the school has taken a step back. If they want licensing revenue for that original patent, it will be trivial in contrast to real support for starting a company.