Ownership

Definition
Ownership is the bundle of rights allowing one to use, manage, and enjoy property, including the right to convey it to others. Ownership implies the right to possess a thing, regardless of any actual or constructive control. Ownership rights are general, permanent, and heritable.

Cases
U.S. v. State of Texas 339 U.S. 707, 710-11 (1950): "Texas...denies that the United States is or ever has been the owner of the lands, minerals, etc., underlying the Gulf of Mexico within the disputed area; denies that the United States is or ever has been possessed of paramount rights in or full dominion over the lands, minerals, etc., underlying the Gulf of Mexico within said area except the paramount power to control, improve, and regulate navigation which under the Commerce Clause...denies that these or any other paramount powers or rights of the United States include ownership or the right to take or develop or authorize the taking or developing of oil or other minerals in the area in dispute without compensation to Texas"

Israel Bio-Engineering Project v. Amgen Inc., 475 F.3d 1256, 1265 (Fed. Cir. 2007) "The contract...gives IBEP exclusive ownership over the patent because this agreement gives it the right to an assignment of “all rights, title and interest” to “all inventions resulting from the R & D Programs.”"