The IPKat
JANUARY 31, 2023
In the consequentials hearing judgment [2023] EWHC 138 , the Judge dealt with (1) royalty payments; (2) costs; (3) confidentiality; and (4) permission to appeal. Of the most interesting to this Kat was the treatment of costs (well, some of them), confidentiality and permission to appeal. The result being that money was due.
Kashishipr
JANUARY 27, 2022
In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties. Therefore, many companies are way too vigilant about protecting their IP assets.
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IP and Legal Filings
APRIL 13, 2022
The exclusive rights that the Intellectual Property Rights provides to an inventor and a creator in consideration for the efforts being taken by them so that they could reap commercial benefits out of their work, substantiates the importance of IP. Labelling key documents as ‘confidential’, ‘secret’ could be beneficial.
IPilogue
JULY 9, 2021
Many contracts assigning IP have detailed provisions dealing with the incidents of the assignment. Other contracts are brief, but all are written against the background of default rules such as those on estoppel. v Adkins 395 US 693 (1969), would carry over to patent assignments. . For example, in the U.K. , 7] Minerva, ibid at 15. [8]
IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 16, 2021
In case federal law permits the registration of trade secrets and confidential information, it must be registered as in the case of the United States. It is important to understand the ownership or possession of IP in case of any such contract with a third party.
LexBlog IP
OCTOBER 24, 2022
Under typical Phase 1 contracts with the Department of Defense (DoD), such as the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), default ownership of domestic and international intellectual property rights belong to the Contractor. The inventor of the invention and the corresponding contract number that the agreement was conceived under.
IPilogue
JULY 7, 2021
The employee created or developed the invention with the employer’s confidential information. A written contract including an express contractual term contrary to the presumption of employee ownership also overrides the common law rule. The employee sought help from the employer or consulted the employer in making the invention.
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