Intellectual Property
Jan. 6, 2009
Who Owns What? Court to Consider Employees' Right to IP
A San Francisco federal court will have to balance protecting companies' IP rights and the the rights of those companies' individual employees to invent things and own the things they develop on their own time in a jury trial set to start Monday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer More than a decade ago, Stephen C. Macevicz was the senior patent attorney for Foster City-based life sciences company Applied Biosystems. Macevicz's job was to write patents for others' inventions. But Macevicz isn't just an attorney. He's also an inventor. While Macevicz was at Applied Biosystems - the company's technology was used to complete the Human Genome Project - he invented and patented some th...
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