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1 September 2020PatentsSarah Morgan

Fed Circuit overturns inventorship ruling in Cisco suit

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has concluded that a Massachusetts court was wrong to find that automation company  Egenera couldn’t re-add an inventor to its patent after  Cisco had the patent invalidated.

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