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Trump administration threatens to strip Harvard University of lucrative patents

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Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 15 April. Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi/Reuters

The latest phase of the Trump administration’s offensive against Harvard University is a comprehensive review of the university’s federally funded research programs, and the threat to strip the school’s lucrative portfolio of patents.

In a letter to the Harvard president, Alan Garber, posted online on Friday, Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, accused Harvard of breaching its legal and contractual requirements tied to federally funded research programs and patents.

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