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US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling to correct inventorship on hose patents after plaintiff proved the patent holder had gotten ideas for his invention after the two met. Blue Gentian LLC v Tristar Products Inc.
A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent...
Two SCOTUS Patent cases Blue Gentian v. Tristar Products and HIP v. Hormel Foods show Joint inventorship is a fact-specific question, patent errors in inventorship, patent owners should evaluate any potential attacks on inventorship before bringing an infringement suit.
Last week, the Federal Circuit issued another precedential decision on inventorship. However, unlike in HIP, Inc. v. Hormel Foods Corporation (22-1696) where the appellate panel found...
Yita LLC v. MacNeil IP LLC, Appeal Nos. 2022-1373, -1374 (Fed. Cir. June 6, 2023) In appeals from two inter partes reviews before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the...