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Supreme Court Ruling: Misappropriating Others' Technical Work For Patents Violates Attribution Rights
The Supreme People's Court has issued a landmark ruling on inventor attribution rights in patent disputes, establishing clear standards for proving substantive creative contribution. In a case where a chip architecture engineer discovered his technical work had been used without permission in four patent applications filed by a colleague from another department, the court examined evidence including technical documents, timing of submissions, professional backgrounds, and witness testimony to determine true
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