Scott, Patents must always issued to a human person or group of them, not to a corporation or the like. IBM employees, Google employees, Widget Manufacturing Company employees, etc., etc., who are employed to do research and development assign the rights to patents issued to them to their employers under the terms of their employment contracts/agreements. Ordinarily, an employee [and in some circumstances an ex-employee] is required to pursue patent applications (at his/her employer's expense).
Some ISV development employees in fact work under such contracts. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
