<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The clause "<span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">successors, assigns or other legal representatives</span></span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">\u201d is a non sequitur. My successors are not my legal representatives. My assigns (aka assignee) is not my legal representative. Rick</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> </span></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 2:43\u202fPM David Boundy via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com">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 dir="ltr"><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2">In a bankruptcy, the client is the bankruptcy estate. The trustee is just the trustee -- roughly analogous to the CEO. The trustee is not the client.</font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2">So an Assignment document that grants rights to "successors and assigns" does the right thing in bankruptcy.</font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2">The purpose of
\u201cfor Assignee, and its successors and assigns" is to make clear that the assignment is analogous to a fee simple, not an encumbered fee tail. I don't remember where I came across this, but I remember it mattered once in my career. Remember that patents aren't always a favored form of property in every country your application will ever see. So you have to take the belt-and-suspenders approach to ensure that you assign ALL rights under the law of EVERY country.</font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2">To take an example, intuitively, you'd think that mere assignment of a patent would transfer all rights for past present and future infringement, and all priority claim rights. Not so. You have to say so.</font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif" size="2">So for that reason, I include "successors and assigns." But I can't see why "representative" should be there (except that that was in the brain-dead form assignment the PTO had on its web site in the 1990s.)</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 3:12\u202fPM <<a href="mailto:steve@hoffberglaw.com" target="_blank">steve@hoffberglaw.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><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">I think a bankruptcy trustee or other fiduciary is a \u201clegal representative\u201d and not a \u201cgrantee\u201d. Therefore, this protects the estate of the Assignee.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">The better question is why, in an \u201cunencumbered\u201d assignment, is the assignment limited by \u201cfor Assignee\u2019s own use and benefit and for the use and benefit of its successors, assigns or other legal representatives.\u201d What negotiation led to this limitation? 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This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Patentpractice] Exemplary Nunc Pro Tunc Patent Assignment<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I just saw this after it's been in my form for 20 years. Why on God's green earth would an assignment convey a license to "representative" -- the lawyers? That's cuckoo. I changed my form to "for the use and benefit of its successors, assigns or other grantees."<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 1:10<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">\u202f</span>PM David Boundy <<a href="mailto:DavidBoundyEsq@gmail.com" target="_blank">DavidBoundyEsq@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The essence of a nunc pro tunc assignment is that it's a present reaffirmation of a past tense assignment. Probably the reason you're doing this is that the earlier assignment was goofed up somehow. Never underestimate how, if you detect one flaw, there are others. So you also want a present assignment of any residual that was missed at the time, and assigns the other appurtenant rights. I do that by a definition that includes the magic words "all rights of priority and to claim priority, the right to apply for and be granted a patent, the right of Assignee to make application in its own name, and all rights to sue for past, present, or future infringement under any of the aforesaid."<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;text-indent:1in"><a name="m_-3910756855097184503_m_7178765223024723900_m_-7785072065400796173_m_359634666986184"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1.</span></a><span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><span><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Confirmatory assignment</span></u></span><span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. Each Assignor hereby confirms that the Assignor did assign to Assignee its entire right, title, and interest in and to <<b>whatever yoru defined term is--in mine, </b>the Invention> <<b>tailor the following words to your situation</b>> <by a signed writing on or about ___,> <as of the earliest of the date of conception, or the filing date or priority date of any patent application drawn to the Invention><within the scope of my employment obligation>. Each Assignor hereby sells, assigns and transfers to Assignee its entire right, title, and interest in and to the Invention, for Assignee\u2019s own use and benefit and for the use and benefit of its successors, assigns or other legal representatives.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Assignor hereby acknowledges an obligation of assignment and transfer of this invention to Assignee at the time the invention was made.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:22<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">\u202f</span>PM Randall Svihla via Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;border-style:none none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi, Suzannah</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I use this language:</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, [Assignor] (herereinafter "Assignor"), agrees that the Assignor hereby assigned Nunc Pro Tunc effective [date] to [Assignee] the following [description of properties].</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Best regards,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Randall S. Svihla</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NSIP Law</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Washington, D.C.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;padding:3pt 0in 0in;border-color:currentcolor"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Patentpractice <<a href="mailto:patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Suzannah K. Sundby via Patentpractice<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 10, 2025 12:12 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com" target="_blank">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [Patentpractice] Exemplary Nunc Pro Tunc Patent Assignment</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anyone have a template Nunc Pro Tunc assignment for a patent application, please?</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssundby/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">Suzannah K. 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