• Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’

    Important New Patent Ownership Decision!

    by  • June 11, 2011 • patent

    Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Sys., Inc. In an important new decision, the Supreme Court held that Congress did not change one of the fundamental precepts of patent law – that the individual inventor is the original owner of invention – obliquely, through an ambiguous definition of...

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    The Supreme Court and Ownership of Patents

    by  • November 8, 2010 • patent

    The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to decide a question of patent ownership.  The case is Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. and involves interpretation of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1990.  The Bayh-Dole Act discusses, in the case of federally-funded research, the relative rights of patent...

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