...patent shall be made by the Inventor • • *." Under section 201, "application tor patent, patents or any Interest therein, shall be assignable In law by an Instrument In writing." a This latter situation is probably common In the creation of copyright material. It is believed that...

...assignments. The comparable statute- relating to patent assignments, RS § 4898 (35 USC § 47) reads: Every patent or any Interest therein shall be assignable in law by an Instrument In writing, and the patentee or his assigns or legal representatives may In like manner grant and convey an exclusive right...

...following substituted for the text of section 261 (b) in S. 643: "(b) Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an Instrument in writing and in like manner exclusive rights under applications for patent and patents may be conveyed for the whole...

...however to the defense provided in section 282 (b) of this title. "(c) Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. An applicant or a patentee may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his application...

...title, patents shall have the attributes of personal property. "(b) Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. "(c) A certificate of acknowledgment under the hand and official seal of a person authorized to administer...

...this title, patents shall have the attributes of personal property. "Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing." [1l Although Congress has granted the patentees n certain right of alienability, this section does...

...this title, patents shall have the attributes of personal property. "Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing." [1] Although Congress has granted the patentees a certain right of alienability, this section does...

...provides that patents shall have attributes of personal property and that applications for patents, or any interest therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. An assignment is the only menus by which legal title of a patent passes. Marshall v. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet...

...(1976); 5 A. DEUER, WALKER ON PATENTS $ 439, at 57 (2d ed. IS72). 49 "Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing." 35 USC S 261 (1976). 50 See Doherty & landiorio, The Law of the Employed Inventor — Time for a. Change,...

...reproductions. Sec. 5. Every copyright for a design registered mulct 1 the provisions of this Act, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing; and the copyright claimant of record or his assigns or legal representatives may, in like manner, grant and...