Diagramming a legal issue: Who owns an employee’s invention?

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1. Invention ownership – watch out for automatic assignment language in the employment agreement A subsidiary of Major League Baseball was able to throw up, at least temporarily, a complete roadblock to a computer scientist’s patent infringement lawsuit. It...
2. How to write and file a patent application in one day, without taking notes UPDATE: I’ve since refined the techniques described in this posting — see Patent applications: A cheaper, less-painful approach The short version: Six slides I’ve posted a...
3. Post-employment invention assignment obligation invalidated as non-competion clause In Applied Materials v. Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Company, a federal district court in Silicon Valley ruled that an invention assignment clause was invalid. The clause...
4. Finding the sex appeal of an invention using the Toyota 5 Whys technique In doing the inventor interviews for some recent patent-application client work, I’ve been finding that Toyota’s 5 Whys questioning technique is a great tool. The...