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What legal responsibilities does a listed inventor have?
The inventors responsibility, as an inventor, is to truthfully sign the declaration regarding being a true inventor and fulfilling the duty of disclosure and candor to the USPTO during the prosecution ...
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A question regarding patent
The general rule (and I am not a lawyer) is that when you work for a company, the company owns your work product. Thus is you invent something while at work, your company owns the invention. They are ...
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Who will be the assignee in such hypothetical situation?
If companies A & B are competitors, both company A and company B may have just cause to fire each of their respective coinventor employees for discussing subject matter that pertains to each ...
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Who will be the assignee in such hypothetical situation?
If both Alex and Bob were not working at the time and the invention is unrelated to their companies products, then likely neither company has any rights to the invention. In any case, consulting with ...
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Who will be the assignee in such hypothetical situation?
If the topic falls under the agreement Alex has with A, Alex assigns their rights to A. Otherwise Alex retains rights. If the topic falls under the scope of Bob’s agreement with B,then Bob assigns to ...
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Question about the original assignee in this patent
How do you find a company? You search on the internet. A Google search yielded this: https://www.ca-registry.com/C0480237-roto-rico-co-inc amongst other hits. Evidently, the company has dissolved.
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Does LEGO own patent US 8,292,744 B2?
On Google Patents, note that the Original Assignee is "Roblox Corporation". From an WSJ blog in 2013:
Roblox raised about $7.2 million from investors including Altos
Ventures and First Round ...
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Patent enquiry for Eco friendly products
Ordering a certified copy of a patent from the patent office does not grant the right to practice the invention. It is simply a copy. Certified copies are commonly used when filing in a different ...
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Do I need to assign the rights of a patent to the company I consult with?
Keeping the patent in your name and that of the company owner would create a joint ownership allowing either of you to exploit the patent. I am assuming that the manufacturer is the company that is ...
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