Two scientists, Ray Chiu and Duncan Kelly, have received a £1.5 million patent claim payout, the first of its kind in the UK, in recognition of the “outstanding benefit” of their research (Image: Lawrence Lawry / Getty)
IT HAS been a long time coming. Back in 1987, Ray Chiu and Duncan Kelly were research scientists at UK medical diagnostics company Amersham International, which later became part of the US multinational General Electric. Today they are jointly more than £1.5 million richer after the high court in London awarded them retrospective compensation from GE for their part in an invention…
