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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">My apologies for any confusion I may have caused by not being more specific. In penance I make the following comments answering, I hope, some of the questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Pre-filing activity<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the EPO no inventor assignment is required. All that the applicant need do, so far as the EPO is concerned, is file a declaration of inventorship containing a statement
indicating the origin of the applicant’s right to the European patent (Article 81 EPC). The EPO do not verify this (Rule 19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If the application is a PCT application the EPO do not require even these formalities if the inventor has been named at the PCT stage.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In short, the EPO don’t care about the derivation of the invention, provided someone is named as inventor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If there is any challenge to the right to the invention it has to be before the national court having jurisdiction as determined by the Protocol on Recognition
<a href="https://www.epo.org/en/legal/epc/2020/prorecog.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">https://www.epo.org/en/legal/epc/2020/prorecog.html</span></a> - and under Article 6 of that protocol, for US applicants the German courts have
jurisdiction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">After filing activity<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If the application is assigned, under Article 72 “An assignment of a European patent application shall be made in writing and shall require the signature of the parties to
the contract.” This had been taken to mean handwritten signature, but a practice notice from the EPO
</span><a href="https://www.epo.org/en/legal/official-journal/2021/11/a86.html">https://www.epo.org/en/legal/official-journal/2021/11/a86.html</a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> indicated that a Presidential decision concerning
electronic signature on documents filed with the EPO, would also permit “qualified electronic signatures” to be used on assignment documents.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It is this practice notice that has been found improper by the Boards of Appeal in decision
</span><a href="https://www.epo.org/en/boards-of-appeal/decisions/j230005eu1">https://www.epo.org/en/boards-of-appeal/decisions/j230005eu1</a>. Accordingly at present no electronic signatures should be accepted by the EPO on assignment documents, pre or post-grant
[NB the EPO have very limited ability to accept assignments post-grant – national office requirements vary considerably].<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Specific questions<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Are no electronic signatures okay? CORRECT – NO ASSIGNMENT SIGNED ELECTRONICALLY WILL BE RECORDED BY THE EPO
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Not Docusign-type signatures? CORRECT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What is a "qualified electronic signature," and is that okay?
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Article 3(12) of this document contains the definition the EPO are working on “mutatis mutandis” <a href="https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2014.257.01.0073.01.ENG">https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2014.257.01.0073.01.ENG</a>.
I hate mutants. NOT OK FOR AN ASSIGNMENT OF THE APPLICATION <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Does this requirement only apply to transfers once already in the EPO? YES
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Or will it be applied to all signatures (on assignments) used to reach the EPO? THERE IS HARDLY EVER A NEED FOR INVENTOR ASSIGNMENTS TO REACH THE EPO – AND THEY
DON’T CARE ANYWAY – AND UNDER RECENT DECISION G1/22 IT SEEMS THAT THEY ARE EXPANDING THE “NOTHING TO DO WITH ME” APPROACH.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inventor assigns first application to Company. Company files PCT application (Company = applicant). Company enters European regional phase off PCT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Does it matter how the inventor signed the assignment to the company? NO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Final comments<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This would probably have been solved if the EPO had implemented a specific rule defining electronic signatures, or giving the President the power to define electronic
signatures, but this did not happen and instead a shortcut was used. Of course, rule changes attract scrutiny, but this is possibly the least contentious matter on which a rule change could have been asked for. While the EPO have on occasion ignored inconvenient
decisions of the Boards of Appeal, this is one where the effect on practice is already evident. Let’s hope they can fix it soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I’m stilll trying to figure it out. Are no electronic signatures okay?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Not Docusign-type signatures?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">What is a "qualified electronic signature," and is that okay?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Does this requirement only apply to transfers once already in the EPO? Or will it be applied to all signatures (on assignments) used to reach the EPO?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Inventor assigns first application to Company. Company files PCT application (Company = applicant). Company enters European regional phase off PCT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Does it matter how the inventor signed the assignment to the company?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Patentpractice] inventor address on patent assignment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thank you for sending the decision. Wow. 20 plus pages to decide if an electronic signature is really a signature. Apparently not.
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nov 20, 2023 7:45:00 PM Maureen Mazza via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please send a link to this EPO decision requiring handwritten signatures on assignments.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Monday, November 20, 2023 at 6:44 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"E. Victor Indiano" <<a href="mailto:vic@im-iplaw.com">vic@im-iplaw.com</a>>, "James E. Lake" <<a href="mailto:jel@randalldanskin.com">jel@randalldanskin.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On top of which, a recent decision of the EPO Boards of Appeal overturned a decision of the EPO President, and held that only handwritten signatures were effective on assignments, not electronic signatures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] inventor address on patent assignment</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">You will have to ask this question of each foreign associate in the states where your client may wish to file. Send them your
draft assignment for review. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">In my experience, it is very difficult to anticipate all of the possible informalities in a single assignment form that covers
every foreign state. If you start with a proper assignment, then it should require the assignor to cooperate in preparing follow-on assignments complying to local rules. Depending on where you file, the biggest problem you may have is not enough originally-signed
and notarized copies if you file in any states that are not parties to the Hague Convention on Apostilles
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">That said, I generally list the assignor residence city, state, and country only and, if necessary, mailing address as their
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US">As most of you are likely aware, the USPTO does not require the assignor's address to be provided on a patent assignment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US">We are trying not to have to go back and cure assignments for an invention that will likely have a lot of national phase applications, but we'd rather avoid having inventor home addresses become part
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