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Assignee Filing, Oath, Misjoinder, Inventor’s Right to Apply, Naming of the Inventor

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Assignee Filing, Oath, Misjoinder, Inventor’s Right to Apply, Naming of the Inventor

Assignee Filing, Oath, Misjoinder, Inventor’s Right to Apply, Naming of the Inventor

RESOLVED, the Intellectual Property Owners Association supports in principle a coordinated set of amendments to the U.S.patent laws that–

  • remove the prohibition on assignee filing (35 U.S.C. §118),
  • simplify the filing of the applicant’s filing oath (35 U.S.C. §115),
  • remove misjoinder as a defense to patent validity (35 U.S.C. §256),
  • secure the inventor’s rights by granting the inventor the sole right to apply for a patent, unless assigned (35 U.S.C. § 101), and
  • simplify the correction of naming of the inventor in patents and applications for patent (35 U.S.C. §25).