Not reliably. International corporate ownership is very complex. And consider the following: Apple instructs one of its employees to quit and start a new compan

Not reliably. International corporate ownership is very complex. And consider the following: Apple instructs one of its employees to quit and start a new company. That company files the patent and gets it approved for cheap. Apple buys the company the next day. It's very hard to create a system here that's not readily gameable.