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University of Pittsburgh v. Hedrick (C.D. Cal. 2008)

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- On June 9, 2008, the University of Pittsburgh obtained a judgment correcting inventorship on U.S. Patent No. 6,777,231 under 35 U.S.C. § 256. The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California determined that several of the inventors, who had assigned their rights to the Regents of the University of California, were not properly named as inventors, thus extinguishing the Regents' rights and nullifying a license from the University of California to Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. As a consequence, the Pittsburgh licensee, Artecel Inc., became the sole licensee of the '231 patent. The '231 patent...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 30, 2008 (boomark / email).