Ethicon, Inc. And Inbae Yoon, M.D. v. United States Surgical Corporation and Young Jae Choi

U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit · Decided 1998-04-01

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PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, dissenting. I respectfully dissent, for whether or not Mr. Choi made an inventive contribution to two of the fifty-five claims of the ’773 patent, he is not a joint owner of the other fifty-three claims of the patent. Neither the law of joint invention nor the law of property so requires, and indeed these laws mandate otherwise. The district court found tha…

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