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Ropes & Gray LLP

Best Practices for Diligencing Chain-of-Title for Post-AIA Patent Applications with Assignee-Applicants

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Patent diligence in the context of M&A and other types of commercial transactions typically involves confirmation of a patent’s chain-of-title ownership, from initial inventors through to the current assignee-owner. The...more

WilmerHale

Federal Circuit Overrules Rosen-Durling Test for Design Patent Obviousness as “Improperly Rigid”

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Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - LKQ CORPORATION v. GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC [OPINION] (2021-2348, 5/21/24) Moore, Lourie, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, Stoll, and Stark - Stoll,...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

IP Assignment Considerations for Emerging Companies

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Founders of an emerging company must decide early on in its growth cycle whether to require employees to assign their inventions (including rights to patent and patent applications –collectively “patent rights”) to the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Assignment Consideration Can Be Representation, Support and Opportunity - Memorylink Corp. v. Motorola Solutions, Inc.

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Addressing whether a patent was properly assigned and whether claims of inventorship fraud were properly barred by the statute of limitations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s summary...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Make Sure You Own the Patent You Think You Do.

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The biotechnology industry has a long history of successfully licensing and litigating university technology. That trend looks to be continuing, even as other industries have taken aim at limiting patent enforcement. Ten U.S....more

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