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If a person tells me non-confidential information, or presents me with non-confidential information, and I use part of the knowledge I received the person in a patent application, do I need to list that person as one of the inventors?
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If the person did not conceive part of the idea of the invention, mere providing background knowledge cannot make him part of the inventorship. An inventor is a person who has to contribute to a claimed element of the invention.
The previous poster is correct. Concepts do not make an inventor. Reduction to practice makes an inventor.
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