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Re:Science Is Getting Harder by spicymaki on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:40PM (#31600854)
I worked for a midsize company that required the CEO be named on all patent applications. I am not sure engineering is exempt.
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Re:Science Is Getting Harder by anamax on Thursday June 02, 2022 @07:18PM (#31601842)
> I worked for a midsize company that required the CEO be named on all patent applications.

Unless the CEO actually was one of the inventors, that is grounds to invalidate the patents and there may be other consequences.

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Re:Science Is Getting Harder by hatmatrix on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:04AM (#31605530)
I believe this happened at Theranos as well.
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