Comment by kube-system
3 hours ago
> Listing out inventors is not about protecting the rights of humans but giving proper attribution to the works.
This sentence contradicts itself. The reason we attribute inventors is because we recognize it as a legal right. Patents exist to give humans, whether working individually or in a group, an exclusive right to that invention for a period of time, as a legal protection for the activity of inventing.
My math teacher made me say whether or not I used a calculator. But that's not a requirement for patents.
You don't need to say what tools you used, even if you used a really big calculator.
Also, calculators don't anthropomorphize into inventors when they get really big. Inventing is, by definition, only something humans can do. Even other living creatures cannot be inventors.
> an exclusive right to that invention for a period of time, as a legal protection for the activity of inventing.
Can you cite this? What I know is that only Twitter back in the day created this framework that would give inventors the right to disallow for their patents to be used for patent infringement lawsuits. Otherwise, not even the inventor(s) have the right to infringe on their own patents. Inventors have no rights at all. Or if you know otherwise, I would love to hear it.
Rights of IP work done for hire is assigned to the payor. This is what I was referring to with the "in a group" call out in my above comment.
That's not simply a patent thing -- the copyright of the code you may write as a software engineer at work is assigned to your employer even though you may be listed as the author.
You can't take the software you wrote as an employee MegaCorp INC and sell it yourself next week, you would be infringing on their copyright (even though you wrote it).