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Xipe Totec

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6. Patents can only be granted to the original creators

Reply to SoCalDem (Reply #2)

Tue May 21, 2013, 07:10 AM

May 2013

Who can then sell them.

High tech companies require employees to assign patents to them for any work done while working for the company. But even then, only the inventor can apply for and obtain the patent.

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