United States Federal Circuit
Univ. of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education v. Hedrick, 08-1468
In a patent dispute involving the differentiation of adipose-derived stem cells, district court judgment finding that defendants were not co-inventors of the patent in question and granting a misjoinder motion is affirmed where there is clear and convincing evidence that plaintiff's researchers conceived of each claim of their invention through contemporaneous corroboration before the arrival of defendants at the university.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/23/2009
- Published 07/23/2009
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- United States Federal Circuit