District Court, E.D. Louisiana July 1, 2002, 2:01-cr-00003 (RITCHIE DEVELOPMENT, LTD. v. Roys)

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ORDER AND REASONS

VANCE, District Judge.

1. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff Ritchie Development, Ltd. sued Curtis Roys for correction of inventorship, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 236. Plaintiff seeks a ruling that Larry Ritchie was the sole inventor of United States Patent No. 5,835,372 (“the ’372 patent”), on which Larry Ritchie and Curtis Roys are named as co-inventors.