Jane Lambert
In Disputes over Ownership of Inventio ns 6 Aug 2015 NIPC South East I wrote:
As I said in the next sentence, disputes over ownership of patents or patent applications are known as "entitlement disputes." Of the 41 inter partes hearings, and reasoned decisions made without a hearing in 2014 mentioned in that table, 31 were entitlement disputes. The situation had not changed much by 2018 which is the last year for which I have been able to find comparable statistics. According to the table on page 60 of Facts and Figures 2018 , entitlement disputes accounted for 24 of the 38 inte