But it's also not true. They're allowed to patent the results and keep things secret; it's the publication that has to be in the public domain. The background intellectual property can be....
We have a story on one of the universities in England. For 18 months, we have not been able to sign the deal. They're going to give us information, we're going to do the experiments, and they want to own all of our intellectual property. We say no; we want to share it.
Universities are structured in our ecosystem to look after their intellectual property. The rules are that once you publish the paper, the paper must be public, but that still could be patented and unuseful to the world.