Joint Inventorship

VANDERBILT UNIV. V. ICOS CORP. [REVISED]

• "The interplay between conception and collaboration requires that each co-inventor engage with the other co-inventors to contribute to a joint conception."
• "A primary focus of section 116 has thus always been on collaboration and joint behavior."
• "A person must contribute to the conception of the claimed invention to qualify as a joint inventor."
• "Our precedent has long required proof of misjoinder or nonjoinder of co-inventors by clear and convincing evidence."