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Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

A Fine Line Between Co-Owner and Infringer

Can an employee’s unpatentable “idea”, conceived under a duty to assign intellectual property, give rise to co-ownership in an invention conceived after employment terminates? That was the question on appeal in Bio-Rad...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Employment Agreement Assignment Provisions Don’t Reach Post-Employment Inventions

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected a biotechnology company’s argument that assignment provisions in its employment agreements granted ownership rights in post-employment inventions. Bio-Rad Laboratories,...more

Jones Day

Andersen: A Window into Derivation Proceedings before the PTAB

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Recently, the PTAB issued its first ever final written decision in a post-AIA derivation proceeding in Andersen Corporation v. GED Integrated Solutions, Inc., Case DER2017-00007, Paper 57 (PTAB Mar. 20, 2019), finding that...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2018

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In This Issue - Gender Diversity in Patenting: Current Landscape and Recommendations - The gender gap in patenting is a current challenge that companies face. While this issue seems pervasive, companies and lawyers can...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Purported Inventor Fails to Prove Inventorship

General Electric Co. v. Wilkins - Addressing a claim to inventorship of an individual not listed as an inventor on two patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a...more

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