The law regulates employee inventions, who owns an invention, that an employee does in the course of his or her job, what obligations employees and employers have and how the inventor is to be compensated.

Current official version: Employee Invention Act at gesetze-im-internet.de

Important regulations at a glance

• § 5: Employee's obligation to report service inventions
• § 6: Claim by the employer – it is considered declared, if the employer does not release the invention within four months of notification
• §§ 9 ff.: Right to appropriate compensation
• §§ 28 ff.: Arbitration board at the DPMA

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