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Whitewater West Industries v. Alleshouse, No. 19-1852 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 19, 2020)

Reversed
Inventorship License / Exhaustion
Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case No.
No. 19-1852
Also Docketed
No. 19-2323 (consolidated; same document)
Decided
November 19, 2020
Judge
Taranto, J.
Document
Precedential Opinion
Length
27 pages

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Richard Alleshouse and Yong Yeh are named as the in- ventors on U.S. Patent Nos. 9,044,685 and 9,302,189, which claim water -park attractions that individuals may ride as if surfing, and on U.S. Patent No. 9,592,433, which claims nozzle configurations for regulating water flow in such surfing attractions. Pacific Surf Designs Inc. , the company Messrs. Alleshouse and Yeh formed and operate to develop and market such attractions, is the assignee of the three patents. Whitewater West Industries, Ltd.

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