How are pending patents sold / assigned?
<p>An inventor has filed a utility patent. It is now in pending status.</p>
<p>If a large cooperation really believes in this invention and buys it in its pending state, what happens if for some reason the patent is rejected?</p>
<p>Is this merely a risk that the cooperation has to assume?</p>

<h2>The contract should allocate the risk</h2>
<p>That’s what contracts are for.</p>

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