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Take Care with Patent Assignment Language
Written agreements discussing an employee’s obligation to patent assignment rights were insufficient to actually assign ownership in U.S .Patent No. 5,781,788, a divided Federal Circuit panel has held. Advanced Video Technologies LLC v. HTC Corp., Nos 2016-2309, 2016-2310, 2016-2311 (Fed. Cir. Jan 11, 2018) (precedential) (opinion by Judge Reyna, Judge O’Malley concurring and Judge Newman dissenting). Despite the panel’s disagreements...