Intellectual Property Magazine
AntennaSys, Inc v AQYR Technologies, Inc
US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - 7 October 2020
Daniel H Shulman and Allison M Haas, Vedder Price PC
For decades, a patent litigation could not go forwardwithout all patent owners as plaintiffs. The US Court of Appeals for theFederal Circuit (the Federal Circuit or the court) had always framed this issueas one of standing:
“Absent the voluntary joinder of all co-owners of a patent,a patent owner acting alone will lack standing.”
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