If two or more people work together to create a product or invention, which one will be granted the patent?

If each had a share in the ideas forming the invention as defined in the claims, they are joint inventors and a patent will be issued to them jointly on the basis of a proper patent application. If, on the other hand, one of these persons has provided all of the ideas of the invention, and the other has only followed instructions in making it, the person who contributed the ideas is the sole inventor and the patent application and patent shall be in his name alone.

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