inventorship

Inventorship is generally not considered to be a patentability criterion under European patent law.

However, inventorship can be relevant to patentability in Europe, although in only a limited way.

In fact, inventorship can change during the prosecution of a patent application as claims are deleted or amended.

Under United States patent law, inventorship is also regarded as a patentability criterion.

It eliminates retrospective analysis of murky "inventorship" arguments between two parties, each who invent independently.

The courts explain that "[t]he threshold question" of inventorship is "who conceived the invention."

Since inventorship relates to the claims in a patent application, knowing who an inventor is under the patent law is sometimes difficult.

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(d) mis-description of inventorship (authorship).

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While the District court accepted that argument, both the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court denied it, leaving the basic law of inventorship unchanged.

Inventorship is traditionally not classified as a patentability criterion under European patent law, in contrast with U.S. patent law.

The issue before the court was a private dispute, and its decision, which involved only inventorship and ownership of the patent, could not, regardless of outcome, have had an impact on the public.

Jenkins tried to claim sole inventorship, but was turned down and sold out to Armat, who subsequently joined and sold the patent to Thomas Edison, who marketed the machine as the 'Vitascope'.

Unlike in most other countries which have a first-to-file system, the first-to-invent system of the U.S. allow a party which has failed to file a patent application on time to challenge the inventorship of another party which has a granted or pending patent, if certain requirements are met.

"N.I.H. is contemplating the granting of this license so that the company legally would be able to market AZT if it is ultimately determined, in litigation between Barr and Burroughs Wellcome, that the Government is entitled to inventorship status," Dr. Healy said.