Re: Charge for Broadcast TV. As my thoughts indicates, the local broadcast station fee is intended to recover the money that AT&T has to pay the owners of the local stations that would be free to you via OTA but is typically not free for AT&T (or any video provider) to retransmit to you.
The Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) includes an new provision added to the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) that, depending upon how it is interpreted, may govern how district courts handle trade secret information in all cases.
The assignee is the entity that has the property right to the patent. Patents are property. The inventor and the assignee may be one in the same but an employee will more than likely assign a patent to a company. The assignment of a patent is independent from the inventorship. A patent may be assigned to a series of different entities but the inventorship, once properly stated, does not change.