The Reason Why Certificate Of Inventorship Doesn’t Serve ONE Specific Purpose!

 

In one of my earlier blogs (Link: https://www.jpranavc.in/2024/06/certificate-of-inventorship-needs.html ) and before the certificate of inventorship was introduced, and even before that, I wrote another blog, the need of such prospective certificates’, the embedded link of which is included in the above blog only, are indispensable. But in that blog, I cited that the purpose of the Certificate of Inventorship shouldn’t only be restricted to issuance of the Certificate naming the inventors; the names again, could also be accessed vide Declaration of Inventorship. The real question in any invention is -> exactly what any inventor mentioned in Declaration of Inventorship executed or contributed in that particular invention. And this is important. Why? The reason as given below:

Under the employee-employer / contractual works, despite the invention being owned by the owner / employer / contractor / assignee, YET, the details of the inventors’ are always required. Now, sometimes it happens that such contractors/employers/assignees cite their names too, without contributing anything in that invention. Herein, despite they not being the inventors, they become inventors; either in a team, or end up becoming both the applicant and inventor (sole inventors).

To circumvent this dilemma, I solicited my theory in my earlier blog to include not only the names of inventors, but also what exactly and how much they individually contributed in it! And then, the Certificate of Inventorship needs to be distributed or issued; citing and segregating, each individual’s contribution in the invention, maybe once the invention is granted, to mitigate more procedural requirements.

Thus, you won’t have any random person appearing on the media or vide PR representing any major breakthrough or invention; Rather, any person would go and read in the Certificate of Inventorship exactly who contributed what precisely.

Further, this would also enforce the employee-employer agreements, contracts, assignments, wherein the employer, assignee etc. would be compelled to include the names of the original inventors only, besides they lawfully remaining the owners’ of the inventions’.

Thus, the present Certificate of Inventorship won’t serve any purpose, until, we know, the scope of Individual Contributions’ in the invention itself. 😊

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