...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...

...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...

...defined and regulated by slate law. The federal Matute, however, continues: "Application« for patent«, patent«, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing." This indicates noi only congressional intent to federalize the assignment of ^»/-invention tille,...

...regulated by state law. The federal statute, however, continues: "Applications for patents, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing." This indicates not only congressional intent to federalize the assignment ofpett -invention title,...

...Oti the tiling of such application and the payment of the fees required by law. If. on examjnation, it appears that the applicant is justly entitled to...therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument iu writing; and the patentee or his assigns or legal representatives may", in like manner, grant and...

...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. The applicant, patentee, or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey...

...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. The applicant, patentee, or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey...