Federal Court Upholds Assignor Estoppel In Minerva Surgical Case

A federal circuit court sided with Hologic, validating its patent under assignor estoppel, despite the Supreme Court limiting the principle in a decision last year.

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A federal circuit court upheld the principle of assignor estoppel in a patent fight for an endometrial ablation tool.

Assignor estoppel is a legal principle that, in brief, says that an inventor cannot invalidate a patent from one company...

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