Mealey's (September 2, 2020, 1:26 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 28 holding, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected findings by a federal judge in Massachusetts that a patent owner that petitioned the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to remove one of 11 listed inventors is barred by the doctrine of judicial estoppel from relisting the inventor following a bench trial on inventorship (Egenera Inc. v. Cisco Systems Inc., Nos. 2019-2015, -2387, Fed. Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 27447)....