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 ...

Recording an assignment may be necessary to permit the assignee to “take action” in the patent application during prosecution and for the patent to issue in the name of the assignee. 37 CFR 1. ...

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 ...

In the patent-infringement lawsuit, the inventor wants to argue that the patent is invalid. The doctrine of assignor estoppel bars the inventor from challenging validity. It stems from concerns that ...

Anon July 18, 2011 11:56 am. EG, I took your advice and re-read the FilmTec case (noting too the proper distinction given to a present assignment there).

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case about the viability of a patent-law doctrine that bars those who assign patents from later arguing against their validity ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) announced changes to most fees to reflect the actual cost of performing the associated tasks. While the ...

We combed through 15GB of this data and linked up every patent assignment with the PlainSite entity, law firm and attorney databases to create an improved version of the USPTO assignment database ...

Patent Law. Harvard Law School, Fall 2017. William Fisher. Preliminary Syllabus. The rules governing patent law will be presented in a series of 11 lectures (marked in red), for which there are no ...

Within months, Albright was positioning himself as the “go-to judge for patent cases,” as Clause 8, a podcast focused on intellectual property law, put it. He advertised himself publicly, speaking at ...