Intellectual Property
Feb. 13, 2013
Mountain View lawyer wins messy patent dispute
A Japanese semiconductor company's claim against the co-inventor of one of its patents has no legal grounds, since no federal law forbids the inventor of a technology from "slandering" his own work, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A Japanese semiconductor company's claim against the co-inventor of one of its patents has no legal grounds, since no federal law prohibits the inventor of a patented technology from "slandering" his own work, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
In upholding a San Francisco federal judge's decision to toss out the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed a win...
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