<div dir="ltr"><div>Oh very interesting question.</div><div><br></div><div>The AU -> PCT link in the chain has to satisfy Paris Article 4. As you note, at least the public record suggests that that is valid.</div><div><br></div><div>The PCT -> U.S. national bypass has to satisfy § 120, which requires the four continuities (inventorship, pendency, disclosure, priority/benefit claim -- continuity of applicant is<i><b> irrelevant</b></i>). That isn't something you discuss, but I'd be very surprised if that's goofed up.<br></div><div><br></div><div>On the limited facts you give us, I agree that the relevant question is an assignment chain that is "correct enough" to establish standing. It's important to draw the distinction between <i>assignment</i> and <i>recording</i>. If the assignment is all ship-shape, then for <i>standing</i>, it doesn't matter whether or not it was recorded. The Assignment transfers ownership to the right entity or it doesn't, whether or not it was recorded. All that recording does is protect against a subsequent transfer to a <i>bona fide</i> purchaser for value. Recording doesn't affect validity of the Assignment itself.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If this is your client, I would ask a relevant legal authority for the <i><b>exactly correct</b> </i>name of the entity (when I get a new client, I <i><b>always</b></i> go the relevant state's Secretary of State Corporations page, and the get the <i>exact</i> name. I''d guess that 1/3 of my clients told me wrong when they gave me the company name. Get it <b>right</b>, including whether there's a comma or not before "LLC" or "Inc." Get it right right right.) Then get a <i>nunc pro tunc </i>assignment to the <b>right </b>entity, and record it. Early in my career, I had multiple cases (one for Digital Equipment Corp., one for Philips, one for Bloomberg) where the assignment was goofed up, for small misstatements of the company name. The patent owner lost damages for the period before the corrected assignment, or lost standing and had to re-initiate the case (losing about 18 months of back-looking damages), etc. Get it <b>right</b>.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 8:53\u202fAM Katherine Koenig via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hi everyone, <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">I\u2019m wondering if this situation is one of a faulty assignment / priority claim that could affect patent validity / ability to enforce:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">AU application naming COMPANY as applicant
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">ā</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> PCT application claiming priority to AU application and naming COMPANY as applicant
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">ā</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> US application filed as
<u>bypass continuation</u> to PCT application naming COMPANY as applicant. US application is filed with a USPTO one-page form assignment to COMPANY (shows in the file wrapper coded as 3.73 statement, but no other executed document that I can see, no records
turn up in the assignment recordation search).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">During examination of the US application, the applicant is updated to COMPANY
<u>PTY LTD</u> (corrected ADS and POA were filed). However, I don\u2019t see that an assignment to COMPANY PTY LTD was recorded, and now the applicant doesn\u2019t match the applicant of the priority chain applications.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">The applicant in the US was the same as that of the AU and PCT applications at the time of filing, so I don\u2019t immediately see a problem with the priority chain. But does changing the applicant in the US application
without recorded assignments have any effect whatsoever on the validity of the patent or the owner\u2019s ability to enforce it? Since no assignment was recorded, is it true that COMPANY
<u>PTY LTD</u> (I believe the correct way to identify the entity) wouldn\u2019t have standing to sue, which couldn\u2019t be corrected by nunc pro tunc assignment?
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