Joany Chou v. The University of Chicago and Arch Development Corporation, and Bernard Roizman, and Aviron Company

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• holding that parties with an “economic stake” in the patent are proper defendants in a § 256(b) action
• holding that entitlement to proceeds from licensing were a “concrete financial interest”
• holding that “[e]very patentable invention . . . shall be the property of the University, and shall be assigned, as deter- mined by the University, to the University” obligated Chou to assign her inventions to the University
• recognizing claim for unjust enrichment in context of gene patent dispute
• determining that, despite a valid assignment of her inventions to the university, the plaintiff possessed standing to seek correction of inventorship because she reserved a “concrete financial interest” within the agreement that the inventorship designation affected
• noting that under Illinois law, a fiduciary relationship may arise automatically or “from the special circumstances of the parties’ relationship, such as when one party justifiably places trust in another so that the latter gains superiority and influence over the former”

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