Valerie O'Shea Murray Ph.D., Tom Murray Ph.D. An invention disclosure form is a document used to capture detailed information about a new invention or discovery. The first step in the patent ...
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), ...
“Failure to properly redact sensitive information can expose both the company and the employee to privacy breaches and potential legal risks.” Assignment documents recorded with the U.S. Patent and ...
The second installment in a two-part series examining the implications of using generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications. Part two addresses the ...
Law360 (July 28, 2020, 3:45 PM EDT) -- In Schwendimann v. Arkwright Advanced Coating Inc.,[1] the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a patent assignment must be documented in ...
Drafting a patent application is not as easy as many think. Indeed, drafting a patent application is quite difficult. Once you have obtained years of patent experience it is easy enough to look at ...
This piece was co-written by Boston area intellectual property lawyer Thomas McNulty. Patents and patent applications are frequently assigned from one entity to another, for example between inventors ...
Organizations use invention assignment clauses in employment contracts to clarify the legal ambiguity that might otherwise result from the employee inventing something using company resources. Without ...