Patent Co-owner's Refusal to Join Infringement Suit Trumps Involuntary Joinder Under Rule 19: Federal Circuit | Practical Law
In STC.UNM v. Intel Corp., the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a patent co-owner's right to refuse to join another co-owner's infringement suit is a substantive patent right that trumps the procedural rule for involuntary joinder under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19(a).