Ironically, although nearly all technical organizations have some assignment-of-invention form for you to sign when you join, many do not follow up with training about how to generate, codify, and protect IP you create for them.
Assignment of intellectual property, also called "assignment of invention," ensures that the ideas, discoveries and techniques that you developed for your employer remain the property of the company.
According to its "Policy on Proprietary Rights in the Intellectual Products of Faculty Activity" (University Patent Policy), 3) the University may file a patent application for an invention in the name of an investigator and receive an assignment of the invention from the investigator.
Revised Statutes, §§ 4895, 4898, 35 U.S.C. 44, 47, 35 U.S.C.A. §§ 44, 47, authorize the assignment of an invention while the application for a patent is pending and of the patent rights to the invention after the patent has issued.
Dictionary of inventions (Vols. 1-6).
Thus, it would appear that the incorrect assignment of sequences to chromosome 20 and the failure to integrate a contig into the chromosome 1 file led to two separate inventions of spurious protein sequence by Gnomon.
Desire is always a kind of invention.
Only his powers of invention were real.
There is no shortage of invention here.
Poverty is the mother of invention.
