Divided Panel: ‘Own Time’ Language In Patent Invention Agreement Is Ambiguous

(May 21, 2024, 1:49 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Findings by a federal judge in California that a 2011 assignment by an inventor to his company of rights to a bandwidth optimization patent was ineffective because of an invention agreement he signed with a former employer more than two decades earlier must be revisited, a divided Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded May 21....