Risk Prevention Strategies: Ownership of Employee-Developed Inventions and Intellectual Property
In July 2022, the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion making it clear that employers must put in place written invention assignment agreements if they want to ensure ownership of employee inventions...more
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharms. USA, Inc., clarifying that a commercial sale of an invention more than one year before a patent application is filed...more
Under the “hired to invent” doctrine, employees who develop intellectual property during the course of their employment generally have no ownership rights to such innovations. Earlier this month, the North Carolina Supreme...more