The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) Open Source, Software Related Inventions, and Trade Secrets Committees will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "Inventorship: Lessons from Recent Disputes" on October 30, 2019, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Manisha Desai of UCB Pharmaceuticals, Brian Hubbard of Condo Roccia, and Kevin Noonan of McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP will look at recent disputes over inventorship to draw lessons for managers of IP and for litigators. The panel will analyze:
• The pluses and minuses for patent owners and challengers of the USPTO's new derivation proceeding versus U.S. district court litigation;
• Litigation between employers and inventors, including a Federal Circuit decision illustrating the pitfalls of securing ownership of patent rights through an employment agreement, and another showing how failure to name all inventors may bar patentabilty; and
• The potential disruption caused by failure to carefully monitor R&D collaborations between companies or between corporate and academic collaborators.
The registration fee for the webinar is $135 (IPO member) or $150 (non-member) (government and academic rates are available upon request). Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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