Within the last year, there have been several cases impacting assignment rights that practitioners need to be aware of. In light of these cases, parties to a patent transaction should carefully ...

In a pair of related rulings, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed two decisions from two different agencies involving the same patent. The Court ultimately found that the ...

“Consistency in the process for examining patent applications benefits the entire patent community because it promotes more consistent and thus fairer outcomes.” After a patent application is filed ...

The case stemmed from a dispute over patents related to electrical utilities’ ability to reduce demand for power. Causam Enterprises, Inc. (“Causam”) asserted several patents, including U.S. Patent 10 ...

Patents and patent applications are frequently assigned from one entity to another, for example between inventors and their employers or between companies seeking to collaborate on a project. Like any ...

“Because the focus remains on ensuring fairness and consistency, when patent ownership is derived from an assignment from the inventor, inventors and companies alike should not consider patent ...

Edward Farrington of Inspicos suggests what measures can be taken to ensure the requirements of patent application assignments are fulfilled after a ‘text string’ signature was declared invalid The ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Businesses, of course, have a strong interest in owning intellectual property created by their employees. Intellectual property — patents ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This piece was co-written by Boston area intellectual property lawyer Thomas McNulty. Patents and patent applications are frequently ...