How do I remove a name from a patent?

Vanity

[ProudFossil]

I and another person were granted a patent a few years ago. I would like to remove the other person's name from the patent. How do I do this?

Thank you Mike

[oldbill]

You can’t. You can buy out any rights he has, but you can’t deny him the patent if he was involved in the invention. That would be like changing history. If he and you developed it, that’s it.

Are you trying to cheat this guy?

[RGSpincich]

Beat me to it.

[freedomlover]

Patent attorney, minimum $20,000, 10% chance of success.

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Actually that is a pretty good call.
And I am a patent attorney (25 years).

[MIchaelTArchangel]

You cannot. The other individual hold part of the rights to the patent. He or she must either sell or assign their rights to you. If they are not willing to do so, any use you make of the patent unilaterally and without respecting the other individual's rights could cost you dearly in damages and, since you know the other person's right, because you have admitted them here, could cause you potential criminal liability as well.

You need to take the following steps:
1. Hire an intellectual property attorney.
2. Discuss your options to have the other individual sell his or her rights to you or assign them to you or failing that what you will owe the other holder of the patent if you profit from the patent.
3. Discuss the issues with your attorney, the other party's attorney, and the other party.

[jla]

To 9 - Why don't you cease playing 'site moderator'? Who are you to dictate what is or is not acceptable here?

By the way, have you also admonished those who submitted threads on various celebrities? Sports? The Friday Silliness Thread?
If you haven't, why not?

[Nervous Tick]

>> Go talk to a patent attorney.

(@$20,000 per minute)

Hey, Joe and I may not know what we’re doing, but we sure work cheap!

By the way, if you ever have any questions on taping drywall, come see me; I do that just about as well as lawyering.

[amom]

Excellent and thanks for the info. On a Sunday no less!

[awake-n-angry]

This is America- buy him (her) out.

[thefactor]

ping.

there are some pretty funny responses on this thread.

[FReepaholic]

[paulycy]

The latest, most current thinking is that you should claim that it is the Constitution of the United States so that any judge you appear in front of will simply ignore it. Then you can do anything you want with it.

[Shanty Shaker]

Could this be a beeber patent?

[thefactor]

maybe it was a patent for the stune setting.

[randita]

You have to kill him first. Then his heirs.

And if you don't want them to find your fingerprints on the deed, send Bomb Kitty to do it for you.

[library user]

Maybe he wants total credit for inventing what is commonly referred to in modern times as...













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The Stress Test.

[Bon mots]

Hmmmm...

So you want to screw your partner, eh?

...and you want us to help???

[Revelation 911]

im personally sick of those damned recipe threads - this one at least posed an interesting question

[LurkedLongEnough]

Send him an invisibility cloak.

If you’re really series, though, retain an IP attorney.

[MindBender26]

I’m expensive

:)

[Arthur McGowan]

That is one patient cat. Our cat would have wriggled out of that get-up in five seconds.