UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law’s 2021 fall lecture featured a robust discussion on navigating multiplexed technology transfer based on the research of noted intellectual property scholar Amelia Rinehart. Rinehart––William J. Maier, Jr. Dean and Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law––teaches and writes in the area of patent law, specifically commercialization. The topic Rinehart presented at the fall lecture is part of a long-term project that was sparked, in part, while she was studying the invention of the radio, she said. While conducting her own research, Rinehart said she found herself asking a lot of questions about “who owns some of this technology,” particularly in cases where there were multiple inventors with different employers, like the federal government or a private corporation. During Rinehart’s tenure at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she served as a professor of law and associate dean for academic affairs, she said she spoke with a researcher developing a prosthetic implant for veterans at the local Veterans Affairs hospital. The researcher worked on a team with members from both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the university