Peregrine Puts Hired-To-Invent Issues In Spotlight

Law360, New York (July 25, 2014, 10:23 AM EDT) -- Do you think your employees are hired to invent? Absent written assignment agreements, you should think again about how you are protecting your company's valuable intellectual property assets. Consider the recent Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. v. RF Micro Devices Inc., No. 3:12-CV-0911-H (S.D. Cal. Jan. 8, 2014) case where U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff rejected Peregrine's motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to enjoin RFMD from licensing or conducting proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to the inventor's — a former Peregrine employee — assignment of rights to RFMD. The court held that given the absence of a written assignment agreement or evidence of the employee having been hired to invent, Peregrine was unlikely to succeed on the merits in its claims....

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