Mealey's (June 3, 2019, 12:54 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Although a California federal judge correctly concluded that a patent infringement plaintiff cannot maintain the action in its own name because it does not own “all substantial rights” to the patents in suit, dismissal without first considering whether the patentee should be joined ran afoul of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19, Fed. R. Civ. P. 19, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded May 30 (Lone Star Silicon Innovations LLC v. Nanya Technology Corporation, et al., No. 18-1580, Fed. Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 16077)....