In Lone Star Silicon Innovations v. United Microelectronics, Nos. 2018-15 82 (Fed. Cir. May 30, 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit discussed how restrictive patent assignment ...

IP assignment agreements are contracts between a business and its personnel that transfer ownership of IP created by the personnel during their employment or engagement with the business. IP can ...

Intellectual property assets are the lifeblood of many businesses today. No employer wants to see those assets walk out the door when an employee leaves. Processing Content Employee invention ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Businesses, of course, have a strong interest in owning intellectual property created by their employees. Intellectual property — patents ...

Colleges use a variety of agreements to secure intellectual-property rights from their faculty members and then license those rights to third parties. In view of recent federal appeals-court decisions ...

Photo: Flickr user hyku via Wikimedia Commons. A litigation funding company involved in the $1 billion NFL concussion settlement claims an order that has barred companies from entering into assignment ...

A recent Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decision offers guidance for situations in which a defendant settles a case and assigns its insurance rights to the plaintiff. Settlement agreements are ...

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An assignment agreement regulates the rights of the assignor and the assignee, especially when the assignment is absolute. Through the agreement the assignor confers their rights to the assignee ...

Photo: Flickr user hyku via Wikimedia Commons.[/caption] The federal judge overseeing the implementation of the $1 billion concussion-related settlement involving the NFL has barred third-party ...