Assignor vs. Assignee In contrast with an assignor, an assignee is the person or entity that receives property or rights under the terms of a contract.

While 'Minerva' limited assignor estoppel's scope, the doctrine remains alive and, in some industries, could remain commonplace, according to Robert Counihan and Eric Majchrzak of Fenwick & West.

Assignor estoppel does not apply if a later legal development renders the warranty given at the time of the assignment irrelevant, for example, changes to the standard for patent-eligible subject ...

The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the validity of doctrine of assignor estoppel but concluded that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit failed to recognize the boundaries of ...

In a June decision, the Supreme Court in Minerva Surgical v. Hologic, 141 S. Ct. 2298 (2021), breathed new life into the doctrine of assignor estoppel, a centuries-old doctrine based in ...

Hologic views assignor estoppel as a well-established common-law principle that has been an implicit part of our patent laws for 150 years.

Hochman: The Precedent is Not Well-Settled Hochman was met with considerable resistance from the justices, who challenged Minerva’s argument that “assignor estoppel undermines, rather than ...

Federal courts have applied assignor estoppel in patent cases for more than a century, but the doctrine has faced significant criticism. In this case, Minerva, a medical-device maker, sought to ...

Formica that unanimously approved assignor estoppel. In a separate dissent, this one joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, Justice Amy Coney Barrett accused the majority of endorsing a ...

The Court now, per BOSWORTH, Chief Justice, reversed the judgment, holding the true rule to be: " The assignees of a mortgage take it subject to the same equity that it was subject to in the hands ...

The varsity assignor for the New Jersey Football Officials Association South chapter was suspended by the NJSIAA in October for assigning an ineligible official to at least four different games ...

By a vote of 5-4, the court rejected calls to completely abandon the doctrine. But the court also rejected lower courts’ broad applications of the doctrine. The court instead clarified that assignor ...