• Posts Tagged ‘employed to invent’

    Owning an Invention vs. Owning a Patent

    by  • March 14, 2016 • patent • 0 Comments

    What is the difference between owning an invention and owning a patent? In University of S. Florida v. CoMentis, more money. A former employee of the University of South Florida (USF), Michael Mullan, invented technology related to Alzheimer’s disease. He assigned the patents to the Alzheimer’s Institute of America (AIA), who sued various defendants...

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    A Partner is Not Hired to Invent

    by  • September 4, 2014 • patent • 0 Comments

    We have an interesting “employed to invent” story which arose in what I suspect can be the most common of situations—two people invent a product, form a company to commercialize it, file a patent application, and then have a falling out before the patent application is even completed. Who owns the patent? In Legacy...

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