Assignor Estoppel: Protecting Your Patent Rights

Assignor Estoppel: Protecting Your Patent Rights     The centuries-old common law doctrine of assignor estoppel is intended to prevent an inventor from making inconsistent representations about a patent’s validity by first warranting the patent is valid when assigning rights, but then later claiming the patent is invalid. In 2021, while upholding the doctrine in Hologic …

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