Importance of Naming Correct Inventors
•Affects Title, Commercialization Issues
–Allows for exclusive licensing
–Simplifies enforcement efforts
•Patent Invalidity—a patent is invalid if
–(a) more or less than the true inventors are named and
–(b) the error in naming them was intentional and deceitful
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