Who Owns My Invention?
Posted on August 5th, 2008
by Admin
A conversation between Brian Treco and Nhung McLeland
Brian: Nhung, to many of us, that sounds like a very silly question. After all, the answer is “I do”, isn’t it? Well, we know that surprisingly often, that is NOT the case in the United States for inventors who are employees. My read is that under U.S. laws ownership vests initially in the actual inventor(s) of an invention. However, an employee-inventor may not have retained that ownership. How can it be that an employee may invent it, but not have sole ownership, or even co-ownership of the invention?
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