Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Alabama
I submitted an invention idea to company some year's back to a well known company..but i never went through with it because their fee's were too expensive..but recently i saw invention come across the television and now im pissed because they assured me that my invention would never be sold or used by them and now it has..do i have a law suit????
1 Answer from Attorneys
The answer is maybe. In the United States, patent rights are based on a first to invent, rather than a first to file, approach. Note, however, that this just changed. The change doesn't matter for you, since this happened some years back.
This could involve a patent suit. But it may also involve an unfair competition suit.
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