Apple Claims Its Former Engineer Helped Invent Tech in Qualcomm Patent

[falainber]

It looks like Apple lost this one.

 

[cmaier]

It looks like Apple lost this one.

Maybe. They still have the documents.

 

[techwhiz]

Not a single thing you have said is correct.

1) a patent is required to list as inventors every person who contributed to the conception or reduction to practice of the invention.
2) apple says they have an email from him to Qualcomm, predating the patent application, that shows he is an inventor
3) if he is an inventor, he needs to be added to the patent. At that point, he can license the patent to apple or assign his rights to the patent to apple.
4) an IP agreement does not solve this for Qualcomm.

Material contribution.
1. Walking by and saying hello doesn't qualify. We don't know to what extent this person is supposed to have contributed.
I had discussions about a lot of features at previous companies but I'm not listed on all the patents for every product I had a discussion with an engineer about.

2. Says they have an email. That does't prove invention or even contribution.
having a discussion about a product or feature does not make you an inventor.

3. This is true. "IF".

4. Never said an IP agreement did solve the issue. I was indicating that f companies actually collaborated, there should be a paper trail. That's all.

Interesting though, that the former employee has acquired new counsel and now won't testify.

 

[cmaier]

Material contribution.
1. Walking by and saying hello doesn't qualify. We don't know to what extent this person is supposed to have contributed.
I had discussions about a lot of features at previous companies but I'm not listed on all the patents for every product I had a discussion with an engineer about.

2. Says they have an email. That does't prove invention or even contribution.
having a discussion about a product or feature does not make you an inventor.

3. This is true. "IF".

4. Never said an IP agreement did solve the issue. I was indicating that f companies actually collaborated, there should be a paper trail. That's all.

Interesting though, that the former employee has acquired new counsel and now won't testify.

Again you are wrong. He IS going to testify. Keep up with the news.

As for material contribution, Apple described what was in the written email, and it’s clearly material.

 

[techwhiz]

Again you are wrong. He IS going to testify. Keep up with the news.

As for material contribution, Apple described what was in the written email, and it’s clearly material.

News changes. It was reported that he would not testify. When I write that at 10in the morning, it was accurate.
If it was a material contribution, the engineer should be listed.

This whole thing is a circus. I'm sure we can agree on that.