Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Failure to name as a party one that legally should have been named, as in a lawsuit.
- noun Failure to include as part of a cause of action or suit a claim that legally should have been made.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, the omission to join, as of a person as party to an action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law The
omission of aparty that was necessary to anaction
Etymologies
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Examples
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The court – correctly, in my view – reads this to mean that there are two kinds of inventorship “errors” that the Commissioner may correct: misjoinder, i.e., naming a person incorrectly as the inventor, and b nonjoinder i.e., failing to name a person as an inventor.
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The court – again, correctly in my view – reads this as forbidding correction whenever an error of either kind misjoinder or nonjoinder arose with deceptive intention.
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Misjoinder can be corrected whether the error arose through deception or not; nonjoinder, though, can only be corrected where the error arose "without any deceptive intention" on the inventor's part.
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Misjoinder can be corrected whether the error arose through deception or not; nonjoinder, though, can only be corrected where the error arose “without any deceptive intention” on the inventor’s part.
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