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[Webinar] Patent Inventorship: Best Practices for Determination and Correction - Distinguishing Between Inventor and Contributor;...

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This CLE course will guide patent counsel in identifying and determining inventorship and offer best practices for correcting errors regarding inventorship. Our experienced panel will provide perspectives gained from working...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit: Contributions to Patented Cooking Method Not Meaty Enough for Joint Inventorship

The Federal Circuit has reversed the District of Delaware’s ruling that added an inventor to a patent. The Federal Circuit found that the contribution by the added inventor was not significant when measured against the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Horizon Medicines LLC v. Alkem Laboratories Ltd. (Fed. Cir. 2021)

Joint inventorship has been called "one of the muddiest concepts in the muddy metaphysics of patent law" because the "exact parameters of what constitutes joint inventorship are quite difficult to define." Mueller Brass Co....more

Knobbe Martens

Publication Does Not Necessarily Defeat Joint Inventorship

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DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE v. ONO PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD. Before Newman, Lourie, and Stoll. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts - Summary: An individual who contributes “significant...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

How Do We Thrive Together: Understanding the “Yours, Mine, and/or Ours” of Intellectual Property Rights in Joint Development...

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Collaboration is a key strategy for growth of many companies in certain sectors, such as energy, technology, and life sciences, where research and development is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage, but can be...more

Proskauer - New England IP Blog

Inventorship Claim in Disease Treatment Patent Dispute Survives Motion to Dismiss

Determining who qualifies as an inventor on a patent application requires careful attention to the facts surrounding each person’s contribution to conception of the invention, as embodied in the patent claims. In one recent...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Inventorship, Ownership Issues Cause Dismissal of Suit

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On July 22, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a long standing patent infringement suit brought by StemCells, Inc. against Neuralstem, Inc., on the ground that all those with an ownership...more

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