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U.S. Supreme Court find Bayh-Dole Act Does Not Override Employees’ Rights to Unassigned Inventions
On June 6, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc., 563 U.S. __ (2011), a case related to the rights of inventors in federally-funded research programs. In Stanford, the Court rejected Stanford’s position that when an invention is conceived […]
A Comprehensive and Extensive Collection of Legal Principles on Patent Opinions Under US Patent Laws
Before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rewrote US patent law on wilful infringement in In re Seagate Technology, LLC, 497 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2007), it was quite commonplace for formal legal opinions to be sought and obtained by those concerned with potential accusations of infringement of patents that were brought […]