Inventorship is proper when a natural person contributes significantly to the invention recited in the claim by: (1) contributing in some significant manner to the conception or reduction to practice of the invention; (2) contributing to the claimed invention that is not insignificant in quality, when that contribution is measured against the dimension of the full invention; and (3) does more than merely explain to the real inventors well-known concepts and/or the current state of the art.[4]  … [read post]