[PIUG List] Patent Assignees on US Applications

I've been ploughing through a lot of US applications lately to create
competitive analyses and I've noticed that many US Patent Applications do
not have Assignee information on them - just inventor and attorney.
 
I presume this is either a) an oversight or b) a ploy by companies not to
divulge who's patenting the application
 
Does anyone have any background on why the Assignee information is often
missing?
 
Of course it isn't exactly hard to find out who has filed for the
application - if you don't have equivalents then all you need to do is an
inventor search. It's just rather time consuming and annoying to have to go
through that process for a whole bunch of patents
 
MIchelle
 
Michelle Tallin PhD, MBA
Pharma and Biotech Competitor Services
CrimsonCanary.com
300 Heinz St, C222
Pittsburgh, PA
Tel: 415 235 8958
Email: michelle_at_crimsoncanary.com

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Received on Tue Nov 20 2007 - 08:51:42