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University of Pittsburgh v. Hedrick (Fed. Cir. 2009)

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

For Stem Cells, It Seems That Conception Is Enough By Kevin E. Noonan -- On Thursday, the Federal Circuit affirmed a District Court determination that the University of Pittsburgh had established, by clear and convincing evidence, that four inventors had been improperly named in U.S. Patent No. 6,777,231 and granting judgment correcting inventorship under 35 U.S.C. § 256. In doing so, the Court's decision raised a paradox with regard to conception of biological inventions (albeit while not making any new law in the process). The facts of the case, as set forth in the Patent Docs report on the District...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 28, 2009 (boomark / email).