Inventor Rights Act Proposes Sweeping Changes to Patent Law - Not Just for Inventors

摘要

The Inventor Rights Act of 2019, which was introduced in the House of Representatives recently, could bring monumental change to the practice of patent law. Mainly, the Act attempts to provide greater protections to inventors who own their own patents while offering none of the proposed benefits to entities that own patents invented by others, including inventors' employers. Fred Carbone, an attorney at Baker Botts L. L. P., discusses the Act, which contains ambiguities and broad definitions that create potential loopholes.