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Community Property and Patent Ownership

Patently-O

2:21-cv-00126-JRG-RSP) (not available on line for free from what I can see) addressed an accused infringer’s argument that the assignment of the patent-in-suit from the sole inventor (Afana) to the plaintiff, Mobile Equity, was ineffective, and so the patentee lacked standing. Walmart (Case No.

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When is an IP agreement between a university and a student inventor unfair?

The IPKat

Background In early 2013, Mr. Jing was hired into a Laboratory at the University of Oxford as a research intern, and contributed to the development of a microscope (the Nanoimager). In Oct 2013, Mr. Jing commenced his DPhil studies (PhD equivalent), signing a contract which included the University’s IP Provisions. But unfair?

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There’s More to Being an Inventor than Butterscotch Ripple

LexBlog IP

Willie Wonka famously said that invention is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. South Africa and Australia have removed the “perspiration” requirement allowing AI to be named the inventor on a patent. The Court relied upon the statutory definition of inventor in 35 U.S.C.100(f):

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Reasonable Stories of Inventorship

Patently-O

Patents filed before March 2013 are examined using the pre-AIA rules of patentability, including 35 U.S.C. 102(f): A person shall be entitled to a patent unless — (f) he did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented. The patents list two inventors, Richard Darr and Edward Morgan. by Dennis Crouch. 35 U.S.C. §

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A present assignment of future continuation applications

Patently-O

While most of patents are attributable to both joint-inventors, some are only attributable to one or the other. Ownership Rights : Roku argued Universal lacked ownership rights to assert the ‘196 patent because when Universal filed its ITC complaint, it had recently filed a petition to correct inventorship to add a Universal employee.

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The Legal Complexities Around Metaverse

IP and Legal Filings

The world is witnessing multiple new inventions every passing minute and a boom in popularity of the Metaverse. The leaders of the tech world have claimed that metaverse is not merely the next invention or part of the future rather it is the future itself. Patents within Metaverse.

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“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

LexBlog IP

26 , rejected the claim that taking away, or ignoring, the ability-to-control indicia of ownership amounts to a taking: Similarly, property rights, including copyright, have been described as ownership of a bundle of rights or interests. 92, 96 (1876) (“A patent for an invention is as much property as a patent for land.