{"id":11653,"date":"2021-09-24T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T23:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11653"},"modified":"2021-09-24T17:10:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T23:10:16","slug":"muddy-metaphysics-of-patent-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=11653","title":{"rendered":"Muddy Metaphysics of Patent Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The evening news here in Colorado shared this video clip the other night of some local bears sparring in a mud puddle.  I&#8217;m not entirely sure how Federal Circuit panel discussions operate immediately following oral argument; but, I suppose it could be something similar to this.  Particularly when inventorship rears its head during a case:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>One court has said that the &#8220;exact parameters of what constitutes joint inventorship are quite difficult to define. It is one of the muddiest concepts in the muddy metaphysics of patent law.&#8221;<\/p><cite><em>In re VerHoef<\/em>, 888 F.3d 1362, 1365 (Fed. Cir. 2018)(quoting &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11683349483224316794&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4006\"><em>Mueller Brass Co. v. Reading Indus., Inc.,<\/em>&nbsp;352 F.Supp. 1357, 1372 (E.D. Pa. 1972)<\/a>).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"408\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I34t6LqY1Zg?start=19&amp;end=59\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evening news here in Colorado shared this video clip the other night of some local bears sparring in a mud puddle. I&#8217;m not entirely sure how Federal Circuit panel discussions operate immediately following oral argument; but, I suppose it could be something similar to this. Particularly when inventorship rears its head during a case: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11653"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11653\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}