Inventorship: Be Ever Aware of Who Owns What
Inventorship remains the touchstone of who owns patentable technology. Yet inventorship remains, at times, one of the most perplexing and contentious aspects of patent law.
Case in point is the recent 111-page decision in Dana-Faber Cancer Institute, Inc. v. Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., et. al, Case No. 15-13443, by Judge Saris in the United States District Court in Massachusetts. On May 17, 2019, Judge Saris ordered that two American scientists, Gordon Freeman and Clive Wood,…