Replies to post #181539 on OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp (OWCP)

[BruceLake]

You had me really worried there PB with regards to who are the inventors of the OWC patent applications. I do stand to be corrected on that one. Mind you I did refer to them as the "real" inventors. After all it boggles the mind to think that Ziv Turner made any significant contribution. Regardless he is indeed named as an inventor for most of the patent applications, if not all.

Competency aside my other concern was on how it impacts everything if he is no longer associated with the company. On that issue I remember reading the OWC employment agreement contracts, and I'm almost 100% certain that they contained wording that would cause any rights and claims over patents to be assigned to the company. Of course contracts can always be challenged, in which case it would be up to a court to decide.

NOT TO WORRY!!! Much to my relief I came across the following:

People commonly confuse patent inventorship with ownership — or assume that they are the same thing. But they are distinct concepts: The owner of a patent enjoys all of the rights and benefits granted by the patent. The inventor is not always the owner of the patent, and so doesn’t always enjoy those rights.

https://www.henrypatentfirm.com/blog/patent-ownership-vs-inventorship

[lar2]

Pill is a layman term. As a M.D., we call a pill a tablet. Thank you.