Protecting Ownership of Your Property: The Importance of Employment Agreements A recent decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Stanford University v. Roche, 516 F.3d 1003 (Fed. Cir. 2009), highlights the importance of employment agreements in protecting the ownership of intellectual property. In Roche, the Federal Circuit faced the issue of whether Stanford University […]
In Public Accessibility Prior to Patent, Stuart Tubis discusses In re Lister, No. 2009-1060 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 22, 2009), in which the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences affirmed an earlier § 102(b) rejection of a patent due to its prior public accessibility at the Copyright Office, rejecting Lister’s claim that the manuscript was not […]