Inventorship: Who should be listed as an inventor for a patent?
In the US especially, patents are granted to inventors. More often than not, that’s more than one person and the ideas themselves are fluid concepts that often evolve through many handoffs from initial conception through implementation and sometimes even throughout patent prosecution, but how do we determine who all should – and is legally required to be – officially named as an inventor? In the constitutionally expressed interest of protecting inventors and the conception of their ideas, f...