Legal Opinion
Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc. v. Sperry Rand Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 22, 1971No. Nos. 15320, 15321PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUTZNER, Circuit Judge:
The principal issue raised in this interlocutory appeal is whether a district court may correct a patent by adding the name of a joint inventor when the named inventor, or his assignee, does not agree to the correction.
Sperry Rand Corp. sued Control Data Corp. for infringement of Patent No. 2,-629,827. Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc., moved to intervene so that its assignor, John V. Atanasoff, could be certified as a joint inventor along with the named inventors, John P. Eckert, Jr., and John Mauchly. Over the objections of Sperry Rand, the as-signee of…
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