Federal Circuit: State Law Conversion Claim Preempted Where Pleading Seeks Patent-Like Protection
Briefly

The Federal Circuit determined that BearBox's conversion claim was actually seeking patent-like protection for unpatented technology, which violates established Supreme Court precedents like Bonito Boats.
The court affirmed that BearBox could not prove Storms' inventorship by clear and convincing evidence, thus upholding the original patent inventorship naming McNamara and Cline.
Read at Patently-O
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