Inventor s name

An abridged copy of U.S. Patent No. 5,131,727 is provided in Figure 1 to illustrate the elements of an issued U.S. patent. The covet or front page of a U.S. patent (Fig. la) must foUow the form requinements placed on issued patents by the U.S. PTO. Specifically, the front covet discloses the inventor in two locations, A and C. The first named inventor is generally used as a head note. A, for the patent. A given patent may often be referred to in an informal sense by this inventor s name. 

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Web Patent Databases. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) [72] offers free World Wide Web access, http // www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm, to a bibliographic patent database that uses the most current patent classification system, this may not match the classification data that appears on the printed patent, and to a full-text patent database that uses the classification data that appear on the printed patent, this may not match the current classification data. The databases start with January 1, 1976, patents. The full text of a patent includes all bibliographical data (e.g., inventor s name, the patent s title, the assignee s name, etc.) and the abstract, full description of the invention, and the claims. All the words in the text of the patent are searchable. If the patent number is known, the patent, regardless of year, can be ordered from the PTO. Automated searching of 1971 to date patents is available at some of the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries. Prior to 1971 searching can be done at the PTO facilities or at the Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries. Commercial patent search services are also available. 

An alternative route to DMT was introduced in 1953. This was based on air oxidation of y -xylene to /Moluic acid, which was esterified by methanol to form methyl /Moluate, which was oxidised by air to monomethyl terephthalate [40], which in turn was esterified by methanol to make DMT. The two oxidations could be combined so that p-xylene and methyl p-toluate were oxidised in the same vessel, and so could the two esterifications [41], The process was due to Katzschmann of Imhausen, a firm based at Witten and later known as Chemische Werke Witten. This process, known variously by its inventor s name and by various combinations of the names of the companies involved in its development, i.e. Hercules, Imhausen, Witten, and Dynamit Nobel, rapidly replaced the rather unsatisfactory and sometimes hazardous nitric acid oxidation route to DMT. 

When an inventor refnses to sign the docnments reqnired to apply for a patent, a present or former employer claiming ownership of the invention can apply for a patent in the inventor s name, provided that an appropriate showing of the respective rights and obligations can be made. The inventor will be informed by the USPTO of the existence of the application, and the USPTO will independently invite the inventor to participate in the application process. 

Since mid-1992 the system allows 30 letters for the inventor s name and three initials for Christian names. The field is phrase-indexed and thus not searchable with proximity operators. 

The provisional appHcation can be filed in a non-Fnglish language, but if it is, an English translation is also requited. The provisional appHcation must include a cover sheet which (/) confirms provisional status, (2) Hsts the inventors and the tide of the invention, (J) provides the attorney s name and registration number (if appHcable), and (4) provides the correspondence address. 

Many special types of equipment have been developed for particular industries, possibly extreme examples being the simple open ponds for solar evaporation of brines and recovery of salt, and the specialized vacuum pans of the sugar industry that operate with syrup on the tubeside of calandrias and elaborate internals to eliminate entrainment. Some modifications of basic types of crystallizers often carry the inventor s or manufacturer s name. For their identification, the book of Bamforth (1965) may be consulted. 

Many organic reactions are referred to by the inventor s or discoverer s name. A few name reactions are shown in Scheme 8. 

This team approach to R D work can present problems when it comes to deciding who are the inventors to be included on a patent application. It is absolutely essential that the real inventors, and only those, are named on the patent. It is unacceptable to put a person s name on a patent for spurious reasons such as she did some good experimental work, it is a just reward or his analytical skills helped to prove the structure or even worse to keep the boss happy ... 

The sedimentation coefficient is often reported in Svedberg units, S, named in honor of The Svedberg, the inventor of the ultracentrifuge 1 S = 10 13 seconds. Sedimentation coefficients of some selected proteins are listed below. 

Most inventors are not independent private persons but employees of a company, institute, university, or the state. Inventions emerge from work for which they are paid or were the objective of their work. Thus, the resulting patent rights belong to the employer. (However, the inventor(s) must be named on a patent.) Many employment contracts for researchers contain specific provisions which transfer the rights to commercially exploit inventions to the employer. 

A patent claim may also be invalidated if the challenger shows that the patent does not cite the true inventor(s). A patent must list only the names of those individuals who contributed to at least one element of one or more claims. If the patent includes additional individuals who are not inventors or if the patent fails to include one or more true inventors, and the error in the naming of inventors occurred with deceptive intent, the claim(s) may be invalidated. 

Midway along the front wall, one finds a useful patentee and assignee card index arranged in alphabetical order, listing for each patent issued since 1931 name of the inventor (s) and assignee, if any, patent and application numbers, date of issue of the patent, and the title of the invention. 

Because there are few (if any) cross-hnks in the chains of mbber molecules, natural mbber is thermoplastic that is, it becomes soft and sticky in summer and hard and brittle in winter. It is also malodorons and softened or dissolved by varions solvents, as noted. These xmdesirable properties of nat-nral mbber were not overcome until 1839, when American inventor Charles Goodyear (1800-1860), at the end of five years of constant experimentation, accidentally placed a sample of mbber mixed with snlfnr and litharge (lead oxide, PbO) on a hot stove in Wobnm, Massachnsetts. The operation converted mbber into a heavily cross-hnked, and therefore insoluble and infusible, thermosetting polymer or thermoset. William Brockedon, a friend of Hancock s, named Goodyear s cnring process vnlcanization (after Vul-... 

Haydite. Trade name a lightweight expanded clay aggregate, made in USA, named after its inventor S. J. Hayde (US Pat. 1 255 878 and 1707 395). 

He was also named to the National Inventor s Hall of Fame in 1977. 

Under U.S. law, the inventor is defined as the owner of the patent unless the patent rights have been assigned to his or her employer, or some other individual or organization. Designations of assignment are typically filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (U.S. PTO) prior to the issuance of patents, and the name of the assignee is printed on the patent. In most countries outside of the United States, the patentee is the employer, rather than the employed inventor. 

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