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Employment Contract Patent Ownership

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Necessity Is the Mother of Invention – But New York Law Says Employers Better Not Take the Credit

On September 15, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law that made dramatic changes to the enforceability of invention assignment provisions in employment agreements and likely in related agreements including offer...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Your Employee Handbook May be Deficient for Capturing Patent Rights

Is your employee handbook sufficient to capture patent rights in your employee’s inventions? The Federal Circuit case of Omni Medsci v. Apple illustrates one reason why it does not. It is common practice to include, in an...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Who Owns The Rights To Employee Inventions?

One question we commonly hear from inventors is whether they have ownership rights to a patentable idea they conceived while working for a company. The answer can be quite tricky. “The general rule is that an individual owns...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

Essential Agreement Considerations

When drafting agreements, there are essential terms that each party needs to consider in order to make sure that they have a well written contract that will protect their interests. A few of these considerations include the...more

Haug Partners LLP

“Shall Be the Property” Is Insufficient to Automatically Assign Title to an Invention in a Contract

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On August 2, 2021, in Omni MedSci, Inc. v. Apple Inc., No. 20-1715, slip op. (Fed. Cir. Aug. 2, 2021), a Federal Circuit panel decision, with a dissent, upheld the district court’s denial of Apple Inc.’s (“Apple”) motion to...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Ownership of Inventions By Former Employers: Lessons after Bio-Rad v. ITC

The situation is familiar: an employee leaves one company to go work for another, or perhaps to found her own start-up.  She may be working on the same problems that she faced at her former workplace, and in the same...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Patent Prosecution Tool Kit: Federally Funded Inventions and Compliance with the Bayh-Dole Act

Organizations that receive federal funds or that license technology from third parties that receive Federal funds need to be aware of Federal funding obligations under the Bayh-Dole Act. Any invention conceived or reduced to...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

When a Promise Isn’t Enough – Crafting Proper Employee Patent Assignments

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Manufacturers have an inherent interest in owning the intellectual property rights created by their employees in the course of performing their jobs. Employees are the engine that drives a manufacturer’s innovations, but...more

Carlton Fields

If Your Employment Agreements Use This One Word, Ownership of Your Patents May Be in Jeopardy

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What is the difference between an employment agreement that says “I hereby assign inventions I create during my employment to my employer,” and one that says “I will assign inventions I create during my employment to my...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Don’t Just Agree to Transfer Patent Rights—Do It!

Patent owners and employers: Pay attention to the words in assignment and employment agreements that transfer patent ownership to you. A recent Federal Circuit case once again emphasizes the need to use particular language to...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

The Importance of Getting Inventorship Right: A Cautionary Tale in Two Cases

U.S. patent law elevates the importance of “the inventor” to an extent unseen in the rest of the world. Unlike many other countries, ownership of patent applications in the United States initially vests in the inventors...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Intellectual Property Law - June 2016

Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016: An Overview - Why it matters: The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA) was signed into law on May 11, 2016 and gives trade secret owners a federal cause of action for injunctive...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Do you own the intellectual property created by your employees?

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With the days of patent and copyrights applying mainly to tangible objects being long gone, data and patent rights are becoming more important than ever. Now, every process, software, procedure, and other intellectual...more

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