Assertion: patent's inventor | /r/CapableOf | assign the patent rights
Facets:
value: to the company
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to business
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: through voluntary forfeiture
type: MANNER
value: through sale
type: MANNER
value: to another person
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Unless the inventor assigns the patent rights to another person or business through sale or voluntary forfeiture, the patent rights always belong to the inventor, or the inventor's successors, as personal property.
text: Inventors who are employees of a company generally sell or assign their patent rights to the company they work for.