Let say this patent for an example:
http://www.google.com/patents/USD285687
The inventors are: Jerrold C. Manock, Terrell A. Oyama, Steven P. Jobs
They are working in Apple and invent that.
- If one of them, leave the company, can he/she use this patent on his own project? or the company he/she work in?
- If all of them leave the company, can Apple still have the right to use the patent?
- If all of them leave the company, and they set up a new company, can the new company use them?