James v. j2 Cloud Services, LLC, No. 17-1506 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 20, 2018)

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In this action against j2 Cloud Services, LLC and A d- vanced Messagin g Technologies, Inc. (AMT), Gregory James asserts a claim for correction of inventorship under 35 U.S.C. § 256, as well as various state-law claims. The district court dismissed the correction -of-inventorship claim for lack of jurisdiction and, consequently, dismissed the state -law claims . We reverse the jurisdictional dis- missal and remand for further proceedings. I Mr. James alleges in his complaint that he is the sole inventor of the subject matter claimed in U.S.