Practice question
A business receives permission under a license contract to use an invention, with no assignment of title. It argues that section 103 automatically makes every licensee the patent owner. Which answer is best?
- Every license necessarily transfers title.
- A license necessarily cancels the patent.
- Section 103 recognizes both licensing and transmission, but permission under the stipulated license does not itself establish an assignment of ownership.
- Only a court may ever grant a voluntary license.
- A licensee automatically becomes the inventor.
Legal references
- Intellectual Property Code, RA 8293, sections 103–106, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1997/ra_8293_1997.html
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