United States Ninth Circuit

In a dispute arising from defendant's agreement with a company in which he assigned all rights in his invention to the company in return for royalty payments and company stock, summary judgment for the company is reversed and remanded to the district court for a determination of whether defendant should be credited with invention of a 1992 patent, which would entitle him to domestic royalties until such patent expires.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/08/2006
• Decided 09/05/2007
• Published 09/05/2007

Judges

• BERZON, Circuit Judge., Before:  D.W. NELSON, ROBERT E. COWEN, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Larry C. Johns and John H. Pilkington, Las Vegas, NV, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel P. Quigley, Raymond K. Ramella, Cohen Kennedy Dowd & Quigley, P.C., Phoenix, AZ, for the appellee.