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During examination of a patent application or after the patent is granted, the owner of the patent may: Transfer ownership to another entity or party through an "assignment;" or. Retain ownership but change their name.

Patent rules forbid the addition of new matter once an application has been filed, so any modifications to the specification should serve to clarify or possibly delete subject matter. For example, you might be able to edit a paragraph to specify a feature that was shown in the originally filed drawings.

The statute is similar to recording statutes used for recording real property. Thus, although there is no requirement to record an assignment, it is foolish not to do so. Note that absent some unusual circumstance, patent assignments do not have to be notarized for use within the United States.

The examiner may require a title change if the original title is not sufficiently descriptive. The applicant can voluntarily amend the title during prosecution. Changes to the title can be made by amendment under 37 CFR 1.121(b).

To transfer patent ownership to a company or another entity, each inventor must sign a document called a patent assignment which should then be recorded with the USPTO. First-time patent clients sometimes hesitate to identify inventors, especially when the principals of the company are not the inventors.

A named patent applicant is the legal owner of a patent application or granted patent. This may be an individual or, more commonly, a company, university or other legal entity. An applicant is named as part of the patent application process and is the legal holder of the rights to any resulting granted patent.

Patents, trademarks, and copyrights are all forms of intellectual property and just like any other property, intellectual property can be bought, sold, inherited, or otherwise transferred. Inventors, authors, and artists may prefer to focus on creation and leave the work of licensing and monitoring to someone else.

A corrective assignment, name change, or other interest must include: (1) a new complete cover sheet containing the correct owner information; (2) an affidavit or declaration identifying the correct owner, stating why the previously recorded document was not proper, and providing the reel and frame number where the ...

Under patent law, each co-inventor named on a patent application owns that property. In the absence of any agreement, each co-inventor owns 100 percent of the patent, regardless of how much each individual contributed to the invention.