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 ...

A recent Federal Circuit decision discussing the effect of an Employee Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement upon the ownership of inventions made by the employee (Preston v. Marathon Oil Co., ...

A continuing challenge for companies in the United States is securing the intellectual property rights—and particularly rights to patentable inventions—developed by their employees. The presumptive ...

Whether protected through copyright, trade secret, trademark, or patents, software technology companies depend on IP more so than perhaps any other business type in history. It is surprising, then, ...

What are pitfalls that businesses need to know and avoid in IP assignment agreements. Lee: When conducting diligence in M&A transactions, we often run into situations where the target company does not ...

An intellectual property assignment agreement is as important—if not more important—than a confidentiality agreement for startups, according to LegalVision general counsel Ursula Hogben. Founders ...

Disputes over IP ownership can have significant negative impact on a company's value, growth potential, and reputation, even if the company ultimately comes out the victor. Therefore, it is critical ...

If you currently seek funding, among the first things you are asked to present, apart from your business plan of course, is the state of your intellectual property. Your product idea and other IP are ...

CHANDLER, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Everspin Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: MRAM), the world’s leading developer and manufacturer of Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) persistent memory solutions, announced an ...

Of the scores of items that VCs review, the one that they often care most about — after a solid business plan, of course — is intellectual property (IP). It’s a startup’s most valuable asset, and the ...

Son Thai Hoang and Linh Thi Mai Nguyen of Tilleke & Gibbins highlight the strict stance taken by the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam on assignments conflicting with trade names and join the ...