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Paul Downs, Robert Haney Jr. Written invention assignment agreements provide critical protection for employers because without one, employees generally own patent rights to employment related ...

Within the last year, there have been several cases impacting assignment rights that practitioners need to be aware of. In light of these cases, parties to a patent transaction should carefully ...

When two or more people strike a bargain, and each party to the agreement promises to give something up in order to get something else in return, those individuals have created what is known as a ...