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News & Analysis as of May 19, 2013

Using Employment Agreements To Safeguard Your Company's IP (The GovCon Blog)

by Mark Amadeo on 10/17/2012

Using Employment Agreements To Safeguard Your Company's IP...more

Invention Assignment Following Stanford v. Roche: Implications for Technology Transfer and Government Contracts

by Mintz Levin on 6/29/2011

Last week the United States Supreme Court clarified the respective invention ownership rights between federal contractors and their employee-inventors under the Bayh-Dole Act (35 U.S.C. §§201(e), (c), 202(a)) (the “Act”) in...more

Supreme Court Affirms Rights of Inventors in Stanford v. Roche

by White & Case LLP on 6/20/2011

The Supreme Court has reaffirmed the “basic principle” of patent law that patent rights vest initially in the inventor and not the inventor’s employer. In Bd. Of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular...more

Supreme Court Decision: Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.

by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 6/15/2011

In its decision announced yesterday in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 563 U.S. ___ (2011), the Supreme Court clarified the ownership of inventions resulting from...more

Business News Digest - December 2010

by Venable LLP on 12/17/2010

Venable attorneys produce periodic alerts and newsletters covering a variety of topics and practice areas. For your convenience, we have assembled below a collection of the latest alerts and newsletters from November 2010....more

Venable Business News Digest - October 2010

by Venable LLP on 10/7/2010

In This Issue: Corporate Finance and Securities; Credit Counseling and Debt Services; Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation; Government Contracts; Intellectual Property; Labor and Employment; and Maryland...more