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Falana v. Kent State: Inventorship of Chemical Compounds

Posted in Federal Circuit Decisions

In Falana v. Kent State University, the Federal Circuit addressed the sometimes difficult question of inventorship, and found that a scientist who had contributed to the invention of a method of making a genus of claimed compounds should have been named as an inventor on a patent that claimed those compounds.

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