Perspective
Jan. 21, 2011
The Preservation of Future Intellectual Property Rights
Choose the wrong language of assignment, and you may lose your claim to intellectual property created in the future. By Stan Gibson of Jeffer Mangels.
A number of recent Federal Circuit decisions have highlighted the importance of assignment clauses in the transfer of intellectual property, particularly patents. These cases often distinguish between an agreement to assign in the future or the current assignment of intellectual property that may be created in the future. Although the distinction in language is minor, the outcome of who owns the intellectual property created in the future is ...
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