Employees´ Inventor Act
The German law on employee inventions regulates not only the transfer of rights of an employee’s invention to the employer in detail, but also issues of compensation and much more. Without a precise knowledge of these regulations, one can run the risk of irretrievably losing essential rights. We advise our clients comprehensively on all questions related to employed inventor rights. In the role of an outsourced patent department, we develop procedures together with companies, from the identification of an invention through the employer’s assertion of their claim to it, to the creation of a patent portfolio. We train employees and patent departments to collect information and form descriptions of the inventions. Amongst other things, we create forms tailored to the individual client, for example for a correct invention disclosure or an employers’ declaration of an unrestricted claim on the invention. We also advise on the determination of a fair compensation for the inventor and represent our clients, for example in proceedings before a board of arbitration.
