[brudgers]

My advice is to decide what you really want.

Confrontation is expensive. Not just financially when it involves lawyers, but also temporarily and emotionally.

Particularly if you are up against a well funded institution that is free to act amorally (which is not the same as immorally).

With regard to the IP claim, its validity simply doesn’t matter. You can’t afford to show its invalidity because the university has lawyers on staff (and if it has a law school alumni in the bar and on the bench). And of course many many other parallel claims to motivate resource allocation.

Get your degree and get on with life whether that involves trying to start a company or getting a job.

And if you are going to start a company, this is the sort of thing you will probably face regularly. Good luck.

[thrownaway98723]

This is all very helpful stuff to think about. Thank you.