State v. W.E.B.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a joint inventor is required to “do more than merely explain to the real inventors well-known concepts and/or the current state of the art”
• “[I]f nonjoinder of an actual inventor is proved . . . a patent is rendered invalid.”
• “[I]f nonjoinder of an actual inventor is proved . . . a patent is rendered invalid.”
• “[I]f the patentee does not claim relief under the statute and a party asserting invalidity proves incorrect inventorship, the court should hold the patent invalid for failure to comply with section 102(f).”
• “[N]onjoinder of an actual inventor . . . render[s] a patent invalid.”
• “All that is required of a joint inventor is that he or she ... (2) make a contribution to the claimed invention that is not insignificant in quality, when that contribution is measured against the dimension of the full invention.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).