Amy Motomura, ‘The Inventorship Fallacy’, 58 UC Davis Law Review 2379 (2025). Inventors and their inventions are the building blocks of patent law: There simply is no patent law without inventors who seek to patent their inventions. One might think that a concept as foundational as inventorship would be both well-settled and extensively argued in legal opinions. But that is not the case. In fact, understanding who counts as an inventor and what constitutes an invention has surprisingly flown below the radar both in patent law scholarship and judicial opinions. In her article, ‘The Inventorship Fallacy’, Amy Motomura helps us with a deeply-researched and carefully-parsed analysis of the myriad and often contradictory ways in which courts have defined the ‘inventor’ and the ‘invention’ … (more)
[Laura Pedraza-Fariña, JOTWELL, 2 April 2026]
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