Like most of Trump's attacks on academia, the threat is based upon our broken federal courts. True, there's no legal basis, but that hardly matters if GOP judges approve it or, as they've done repeatedly, to just let the harm happen without deciding the merits, forcing the university to give up.
States need to start coming for attorneys’ licenses
With Trump, the question is never: "Is it legal?" The only question is this: "Who will stop him?"
So how long do you think it will take the big corporations to understand that if trump is successful here, he will take their patents next.
So patents aren’t safe from the government now. Why would any company invest a penny in America?