Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 30. TRADE AND COMMERCE

CHAPTER 13. ASSUMED BUSINESS NAMES, TRADEMARKS, AND RELATED RIGHTS

Part 1. General Provisions

Subsequent Inventor Or Author

30-13-135. Subsequent inventor or author. If the owner of a product of the mind does not make the product public, any other person subsequently and originally producing the same thing has the same right in the product as the prior author, which is exclusive to the same extent against all persons except the prior author or those claiming under the prior author.

History: En. Sec. 1364, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 4563, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6810, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. Civ. C. Sec. 984; Field Civ. C. Sec. 433; re-en. Sec. 6810, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 67-1108; amd. Sec. 951, Ch. 56, L. 2009.