Inventorship Is an Important Consideration [Patent Reviews]

Reports on the importance of considering the inventor when applying for a patent.Who the inventor or inventors of a patent are can be very significant. The law says that a patent application must be filed by an inventor or someone deriving rights from the inventor. Because a corporation is a legal fiction, it has no brain with which to invent. Only people can invent, and when people invent, they are inventors. Although the popular image of an inventor is somebody working alone to come up with a great idea, more commonly, inventions result from a collaborative effort of two or more people working together. When the patent application is filed on that invention, the joint inventors must be identified in the patent application to have a valid patent.