Patents, Assignment of Inventions, IP Assignment Agreements

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

Ropes & Gray LLP on 8/15/2025

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

K&L Gates Triage: Five Key Questions for Academic Medical Centers About Patent Ownership and Enforcement

K&L Gates LLP on 9/19/2019

On this week’s episode, George Summerfield and Kelly Plummer explore five key questions academic medical centers often face with respect to patent ownership and enforcement. Their discussion covers a number of issues,...more

Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corporation Et Al.

Knobbe Martens on 1/12/2018

Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Newman, O’Malley, and Reyna. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Summary: A co-inventor did not transfer ownership interests in a...more

North Carolina Supreme Court Denies Employee's Claim to Patent Ownership Based on Pay Dispute with Employer

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 6/28/2016

Under the “hired to invent” doctrine, employees who develop intellectual property during the course of their employment generally have no ownership rights to such innovations. Earlier this month, the North Carolina Supreme...more

Proper Inventorship Still Matters, Even With a Proper Assignment

Burr & Forman on 3/15/2016

In a few recent cases, we see that failing to properly name inventors in a patent application can lead to unnecessary troubles for a company. This is true whether the assignment document is an employment agreement or an...more

Make Sure You Own the Patent You Think You Do.

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/17/2014

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