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The possibilities of asserting rights by the co-inventor omitted in the patent application
What are the consequences of filing a patent application in which one of the inventors is omitted? We have already dealt with various aspects of this issue in our previous publications. We presented a case study regarding the invalidation of the CRISPR/Cas9 patent before the EPO due to the omission of one of the inventors (see here). We also pointed to the matter of criminal sanctions under...