FAQs about Inventions & Patents
Question: What is the Federal mandate that requires an extramural invention tracking system?
Answer - New provisions to the Code of Federal Regulations came with the enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. These provisions (CFR) stipulated the need for all grantees or contractors to report on activities involving the disposition of certain intellectual property rights.
Question: Who can submit a PMA?
Answer - Often times the applicant is the inventor/developer and ultimately the manufacturer.
Question: If a first person furnishes all of the ideas to make an invention and a second person employs the first person or furnishes the money for building and testing the invention, should the patent application be filed by the first and second persons jointly?
Answer - No. The application must be signed by the true inventor, and filed in the USPTO, in the inventor’s name. This is the person who furnishes the ideas (e.g. the first person in the above fact pattern), not the employer or the person who furnishes the money.
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