The Delhi High Court has set aside a Patent Office order that refused a patent application filed by Nippon Steel Corporation ...

Within the last year, there have been several cases impacting assignment rights that practitioners need to be aware of. In light of these cases, parties to a patent transaction should carefully ...

In Lone Star Silicon Innovations v. United Microelectronics, Nos. 2018-15 82 (Fed. Cir. May 30, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit discussed how restrictive patent assignment ...

Assignments are the mechanism to transfer title of a patent, just like deeds are used to transfer real estate. Assignments are recorded at the USPTO and are available to the public. On the USPTO ...

A patent is a form of intangible property. If you are a small business owner who lacks the financial resources to exploit the economic potential of your invention, you may attempt to turn your ...

Patents and patent applications are frequently assigned from one entity to another, for example between inventors and their employers or between companies seeking to collaborate on a project. Like any ...

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A recent patent assignment dispute in Taiwan addressed important issues. The dispute stems from a patent owner assigning his patent to two entities consecutively, but only the second assignment was ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. This piece was co-written by Boston area intellectual property lawyer Thomas McNulty. Patents and patent applications are frequently ...