Bio-Rad argued it couldn’t infringe the patents because its former researchers, who left to form 10X, should be listed as co-inventors of the technology. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected that argument in a precedential opinion.
A contract that assigns all inventions made during employment with a company doesn’t reach inventions conceived after the term of the agreement, even if those inventions were based on work done while the employee was ...