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Addressing the issue of patent ownership in the employment context, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that an employment contract executed after the employee began working for the employer operated to automatically assign the rights to two patents to the employer with no additional consideration other than continued employment
The Supreme Court of the United States recently delivered a blow to the university technology transfer world by holding 7-2 that federal contractors do not have an automatic right to claim title to inventions
In its second affirmance of a Federal Circuit decision in the span of two weeks, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a blow to the university technology transfer world, held (7-2) that federal contractors do not have an automatic right to claim title to inventions
