1 February 2011Jurisdiction reportsRyo Maruyama

Employee inventions and 'reasonable value'

Patent Law Article 35[3] provides that when the employer asserts a right to file an application for an employee invention, achieved by acts categorised as a present or past duty of the employee, the employer should pay reasonable value to the employee in accordance with an agreement, employment regulation or any other stipulation.

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