Important considerations for US provisional patent applications *

USA - June 15 2012
Many startup companies are formed around new ideas and inventions.

Co-authors: George Rondeau .

U.S. Supreme Court holds the Bayh-Dole Act only lets employers keep what they already have *

USA - June 8 2011
Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act of 1980 (the Bayh-Dole Act), which allocates rights in a federally-funded invention between the federal government and a federal contractor, does not automatically vest title to an invention in the contractor (or authorize the contractor to unilaterally take title to the invention) when the contractor has elected to retain title to the invention under the Act.

Co-authors: Seth D. Levy.