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· 9/2/1997

Fina Oil and Chemical Co. And Fina Technology, Inc. v. John A. Ewen v. Abbas Razavi, Intervenor-Appellee

Citations

  • 123 F.3d 1466
  • 43 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1935
  • 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 22998
  • 1997 WL 536006

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that a putative inventor with an ownership interest in the 7 patent in question has standing to pursue a § 256 claim
  • \We apply [the well-pleaded complaint rule] not to the declaratory judgment complaint but to the hypothetical action the declaratory defendant would have brought.\
  • “The determination of whether a person is a joint inventor is fact specific and no bright-line standard will suffice in every case.”
  • “[A] joint inventor must contribute in some significant manner to the conception of the inven- tion.”
  • “Like conception of the entire invention, a contribution to conception is a mental act which cannot be accurately verified without corroboration.”
  • “[A] joint inventor must contribute in some significant manner to the conception of the inven- tion.”

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Judges: Archer, Michel, Clevenger

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