Ownership of a U.S. patent is based on inventorship and an inventor is an owner of the claimed invention unless it is assigned to another entity. Thus, the correct naming of inventors is important, and the improper naming or failure to name the proper inventors can result in inventorship disputes, expensive litigation and/or invalidation or unenforceability of a patent. This webinar will examine inventorship issues in university technology transfer, particularly, the differences between inventorship and authorship, how to determine inventorship in provisional and non-provisional applications, navigating the tricky issues of joint inventorship, methods for correcting inventorship, and inventorship issues arising in artificial intelligence.
Presented by: Lisa Mueller and Jeff Childers of Casimir Jones.
