How Two Recent Court Decisions Show Ownership Can Be Everything and Standing Must Be Taken Into Account
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
In
SiOnyx LLC v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., --F.3d__ (Fed. Cir. Dec. 7, 2020), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Judges Lourie, Reyna, and Wallach) affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part the district court’s decision regarding ownership of the disputed U.S. and foreign patents, finding that sole ownership was proper even though co-inventors came from both parties. The decision presents facts dictating that ownership and inventorship are separate issues. The part of this post on
SiOnyx will focus on the ownership issues.