Doretha Clemons, Ph.D., MBA, PMP, has been a corporate IT executive and professor for 34 years. She is an adjunct professor at Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, Maryville University, and ...

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued its opinion in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic Inc. The case sought to abolish the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel, which prohibits an inventor from ...

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The Federal Circuit has outlined a two-part framework for deciding whether it can review an institution decision, in its Husky Injection Molding Sys v Athena Automation decision The Federal Circuit ...

“A retrospective change would mean a windfall for assignors and radically undercutting the return on the deal for a quarter century’s worth of assignees.” – Matthew Wolf, arguing for Hologic The U.S.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today, in a precedential decision, revisited its 2020 holding that the doctrine of assignor estoppel bars Minerva Surgical, Inc. from ...

A person who assigns his or her patent to another may not later attack the validity of that patent in district court, under the doctrine of assignor estoppel. But an assignor may, under some ...

In Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, the U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of the patent law concept of assignor estoppel in several key respects. Despite those limitations, assignor estoppel may remain ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday narrowed the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel, which prohibits an inventor from assigning a patent to someone and then later contending in litigation that the patent ...