In Lone Star Silicon Innovations v. United Microelectronics, Nos. 2018-15 82 (Fed. Cir. May 30, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit discussed how restrictive patent assignment ...

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 ...

“Failure to properly redact sensitive information can expose both the company and the employee to privacy breaches and potential legal risks.” Assignment documents recorded with the U.S. Patent and ...

Patent diligence in the context of M&A and other types of commercial transactions typically involves confirmation of a patent’s chain-of-title ownership, from initial inventors through to the current ...