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 ...

In a pair of related rulings, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviewed two decisions from two different agencies involving the same patent. The Court ultimately found that the ...

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 ...

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently announced that it will be overhauling the overall assignment search experience by replacing two legacy search applications — Patent Assignment ...

“Because the focus remains on ensuring fairness and consistency, when patent ownership is derived from an assignment from the inventor, inventors and companies alike should not consider patent ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Consistency in the process for examining patent applications benefits the entire patent community because it promotes more consistent and thus fairer outcomes.” After a patent application is filed ...

Edward Farrington of Inspicos suggests what measures can be taken to ensure the requirements of patent application assignments are fulfilled after a ‘text string’ signature was declared invalid The ...

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 ...

Businesses that require additional funding often place physical property, such as buildings or land, up as collateral for a loan. If the lender deems the value of your physical assets inadequate to ...