Federal Circuit Affirms: Inventorship Claim Barred By Sovereign Immunity

(April 14, 2017, 8:57 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Oregon properly found that the University of Massachusetts (UMass) is entitled to sovereign immunity in a lawsuit seeking a correction of patent inventorship, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled April 12 (Mussa Ali v. Carnegie Institution of Washington, No. 16-2320, Fed. Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6250)....

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