By Kevin E. Noonan — The issue of standing can be outcome-determinative: without it, no matter how worthy a party’s position or arguments, a court will not consider them without standing. The vagaries of standing and its importance were illustrated this fall in the Federal Circuit’s opinion in University of South Florida Research Foundation, Inc. v. Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc.* The action arose over a dispute involving an invention described in the opinion as "Workstation-User Interface for Digital Mammography." This invention was initially disclosed by faculty at the University of South Florida who assigned their rights to the University….
