36 Co-ownership of patents and applications for patents
Patents Act 1977 (1977 c 37) | Legislation

36  Co-ownership of patents and applications for patents

(1)     Where a patent is granted to two or more persons, each of them shall, subject to any agreement to the contrary, be entitled to an equal undivided share in the patent.

(2)     Where two or more persons are proprietors of a patent, then, subject to the provisions of this section and subject to any agreement to the contrary—

(a)     each of them shall be entitled, by himself or his agents, to do in respect of the invention concerned, for his own benefit and without the consent of or the need to account to the other or others, any act which would

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