Patent Law

Uppity

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

Wage slaves typically assign their inventions to their employer. Boat designer Borden Larson got uppity about it and sued his former employer Correct Craft, trying to get back a right he had signed away. Larson lashed out in state court. Correct Craft dragged it into federal court. Larson, with no cards to play, lost. Not one to get over it, Larson appealed. No surprise that the CAFC blew the matter off, albeit longwindedly, in a precedential decision (2008-1208), involving jurisdiction (28 U.S.C. § 1338(a)) and correction of inventorship (35 U.S.C. § 256), which didn't apply in this case.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).