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How do I remove a name from a patent?
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Posted on 11/22/2009 1:08:52 PM PST by 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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; Reference
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To: ProudFossil

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?


21 posted on 11/22/2009 1:29:34 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Arthur McGowan

Beat me to it.


22 posted on 11/22/2009 1:30:50 PM PST by RGSpincich
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To: amom

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


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


23 posted on 11/22/2009 1:31:10 PM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: ProudFossil
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.

24 posted on 11/22/2009 1:31:16 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (A village in Kenya is missing its idiot.)
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To: JoeFromCA
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?

25 posted on 11/22/2009 1:34:04 PM PST by jla
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To: ProudFossil; JoeFromCA; TexasAg

>> 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.


26 posted on 11/22/2009 1:35:57 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: freedomlover

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


27 posted on 11/22/2009 1:44:58 PM PST by amom (Proud mom of a US Army tanker)
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To: ProudFossil

This is America- buy him (her) out.


28 posted on 11/22/2009 1:49:27 PM PST by awake-n-angry
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To: Pharmboy
ping.

there are some pretty funny responses on this thread.

29 posted on 11/22/2009 1:53:59 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: ProudFossil

30 posted on 11/22/2009 2:07:54 PM PST by FReepaholic (Give me ambiguity or give me something else!)
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To: ProudFossil

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.


31 posted on 11/22/2009 2:12:20 PM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: thefactor

Could this be a beeber patent?


32 posted on 11/22/2009 2:14:17 PM PST by Shanty Shaker
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To: Shanty Shaker

maybe it was a patent for the stune setting.


33 posted on 11/22/2009 2:15:36 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Arthur McGowan
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.

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34 posted on 11/22/2009 2:44:06 PM PST by randita (Chains you can bereave in.)
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To: thefactor; Shanty Shaker
Maybe he wants total credit for inventing what is commonly referred to in modern times as...













wait for it...



















































































The Stress Test.
35 posted on 11/22/2009 2:46:04 PM PST by library user
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To: ProudFossil

Hmmmm...

So you want to screw your partner, eh?

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


36 posted on 11/22/2009 2:54:33 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: JoeFromCA

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


37 posted on 11/22/2009 4:27:38 PM PST by Revelation 911 (How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
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To: ProudFossil

Send him an invisibility cloak.

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


38 posted on 11/22/2009 4:38:25 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough
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To: amom

I’m expensive

:)


39 posted on 11/22/2009 8:23:28 PM PST by MindBender26 (Never kick leftists when they're down. Wait till they're half way back up. You get better leverage!)
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To: randita

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


40 posted on 11/23/2009 3:58:58 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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