Federal Circuit: Dismissal Of Inventorship Correction Request Not Erroneous

Mealey's (April 19, 2018, 12:10 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 18 holding, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by a California federal judge that dismissed a claim for correction of patent inventorship under Section 265 of the Patent Act in light of the purported co-inventor’s failure to list the patents at issue in a schedule of assets during bankruptcy proceedings (Sally Perrie v. Kenneth Perrie, No. 17-1087, Fed. Cir.)....