35 U.S.C. § 262 — Joint owners

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Each joint owner of a patent may freely make, use, sell, or import it. This is true even without an agreement among the owners. No owner needs the other owners' permission or has to pay them.

This section is one undivided provision. If joint owners of a patent haven't made an agreement saying otherwise, each owner can act independently. Any one of them may make the patented invention, use it, offer to sell it, or actually sell it within the United States. Any one of them may also import the patented invention into the United States. An owner doing any of these things doesn't need the other owners' consent, and doesn't have to pay or account to them for it.

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In the absence of any agreement to the contrary, each of the joint owners of a patent may make, use, offer to sell, or sell the patented invention within the United States, or import the patented invention into the United States, without the consent of and without accounting to the other owners.

Source credit: (July 19, 1952, ch. 950, 66 Stat. 810; Pub. L. 103–465, title V, § 533(b)(3), Dec. 8, 1994, 108 Stat. 4989.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1952Enacted · Act of July 19, 1952, ch. 950 · 66 Stat. 810
1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-465 · 108 Stat. 4989

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