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Who Is an Inventor?

Mon, 08/10/2009 - 20:34 — Paul Lerner

Who is an inventor or, more specifically, a co-inventor? The law provides that “each inventor must contribute to the joint arrival at a definite and permanent idea of the invention as it will be used in practice.” Inventors A and B had jointly developed a belief that, under certain circumstances, stem cells would transdifferentiate into various other types of cells (the nauseating details are unnecessary). They were not, however, “scientifically certain” of their theory and lacked sufficient evidence to support a patent on their invention. Along comes Mr.

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