allow multiple assignees [was "applicant/assignee" field for patents]
Hello,
currently there are three kinds of fields for contributors to patents: (back-translated from German, so they may be labelled differently in the original English version): inventor, lawyer/agent, co-worker. In many cases "applicant" or "assignee" would also be important fields.
Two example patents:
(two applicants, one of them is the inventor) http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO1994006160
(assignee is a company) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0706226.html
I would welcome it very much if those fields were include in a future version of Zotero.
mmmh
currently there are three kinds of fields for contributors to patents: (back-translated from German, so they may be labelled differently in the original English version): inventor, lawyer/agent, co-worker. In many cases "applicant" or "assignee" would also be important fields.
Two example patents:
(two applicants, one of them is the inventor) http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO1994006160
(assignee is a company) http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0706226.html
I would welcome it very much if those fields were include in a future version of Zotero.
mmmh
What I have now become aware of is that the main problem is that there are several different terms depending on legislation: inventors, applicants, assignees, patent holders, etc. But in general this sums up to two positions I think:
A) Those who invented.
B) Those who have the full right to use the invention.
The current assignee field allows to enter only one entitiy for B. So I would like to change my feature request to "allow multiple assignees". Then users could enter assignees, applicants, patent holders, etc into that field and I think this would be a workable solution for all (except maybe patent law researchers).
Abtretungsempfänger
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=359507&idForum=2&lp=ende&lang=de