CITY OF COCOA v. LEFFLER

No. 5D01-1141.

803 So.2d 869 (2002)

The CITY OF COCOA, Florida, Appellant, v. Glynn LEFFLER, Gary Heller, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

January 4, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Usher L. Brown and Alfred Truesdell of Brown, Ward, Salzman & Weiss, P.A., Orlando, for Appellant.

Patrick F. Roche of Frese, Nash & Hansen, P.A., Melbourne, for Appellees.


PLEUS, J.

This case involves a dispute over the ownership of patent rights between an employer and an employee. The City of Cocoa ("the City") appeals a final judgment after a non jury trial in which the trial court found that the City did not own patent rights for improvements to the City's water treatment plant invented by a team of City employees. Because there was competent substantial evidence to support the trial court's findings, we affirm.

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