To properly protect its intellectual property, a company should ensure that all employee-inventors have properly assigned ownership in their patents to the company. Indeed, all owners of a patent are required to voluntarily join as plaintiffs in order for there to be standing to bring a patent infringement action, and inventors are presumed to be owners unless they have assigned their rights.
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* This article was previously published in the American Bar Association on March 31, 2021.
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