Legal Opinion
Egenera, Inc. v. Cisco Sys., Inc.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided December 3, 2018No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 16-11613-RGSPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Putting aside allegations of inequitable conduct, the court agrees with Cisco as a threshold matter that Egenera may not now seek to restore Schulter as an inventor to rectify any nonjoinder. Under 35 U.S.C. § 256, a certificate of correction may issue "[w]henever ... through error an inventor is not named in an issued patent ...." While as a general rule correction of inventorship is liberally permitted, see Coleman v. Dines , 754 F.2d 353, 357 (Fed. Cir. 1985), the circumstances here are constrained by the doctrine of judicial estoppel. "The doctrine of judicial estoppel prevents a party…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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