21. The assignee has a similar, if not equivalent, fiduciary role as the bankruptcy trustee. 22. Assignees of rights in a copyrighted work now have standing to directly file suit against infringers.23. :Whoever took the photo would own the copyright ( or their employee or assignee ). 24. Aventis, as assignee of Trolinder's rights, becomes a joint owner of those patents. 25. Similarly, the assignee could also sue under this theory if the assignor wrongfully revoked the assignment. 26. Cooperation of the secured creditor may however affect the assignee 's ability to liquidate an asset. 27. The resulting inventory of the bank's affairs by the assignees revealed an unmitigated management disaster. 28. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Directors and their assignees can and do exercise power in arbitrary fashion. 29. His tract is claimed by Don Luis Vignes, of Los Angeles, or his assignees ." 30. It is the assignee of published patent applications on data compression, query optimization, and data organization.
