Remuneration for Employees’ Inventions Sample Clauses

Remuneration for Employees’ Inventions. According to Article 9 of The Law, the employee is entitled to get a reasonable remuneration as soon as the employer has claimed the invention unrestrictedly. Actually, the German word used in Article 9 (1) of The Law is “angemessene Vergütung”, wherein the word “Vergütung” means “remuneration” and “angemessene” can be translated as “reasonable”, but also, and even better, possibly could be translated as “justified” into English language. 2.5.2.1. Guidelines for calculating a reasonable remuneration Furthermore, Article 11 of The Law entitled the Ministry for Labour to issue The Guidelines. They were established after The Law had come into force and are applicable as modified (namely with regard to No. 11 thereof) in 1983. In accordance with The Guidelines, specifically No. 2 thereof, Article 9 of The Law has to be used as follows: First of all, the commercial use, in the following to be designated as ”value of the invention”, i. e. ”Erfindungswert”, has to be determined. Then, and this is explicitly stated in No. 2 (1) of The Guidelines, it has to be taken into due consideration that the invention is not a free invention, rather a service invention, and accordingly a deduction from the value of the invention has to be made which corresponds to the tasks and the position of the employee in the company and to the participation of the company in the coming into existence of the service invention. The aforementioned share of the employee in the total value of the invention shall be expressed as a share factor, namely as a percentage of the value of the invention. 2.5.2.2. Calculation of the value of invention 3 a) of The Guidelines) consists in the so-called license analogy, in which case the inventor gets a certain percentage, based on the net sales made by the employer, of a reasonable royalty which the employer in a case where a license would have been taken from a third party would ordinarily pay. This method is by far the most one used in Germany and will be discussed below in some more detail, making reference to Nos. 6 ff. of The Guidelines. Another possibility, according to No. 3 b) of The Guidelines, specifically used when an invention is related to e.g. a certain kind of manufacturing which does not modify the products finally sold by the employer, but relates to improvements inside the company, is that the employee gets a certain percentage of the internal cost savings which the employer achieves by using the invention. The specific use of this met...
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  • EMPLOYMENT TERM AND COMPENSATION A. The Board hereby employs the Employee for a salary of $6,769 per bi-weekly pay period ($175,997/Annualized), payable in installments less any legally authorized deductions as the D71, Director, Application Development. B. The term of this contract shall commence on 7/1/2024 and terminate on 6/30/2025. C. The Board shall designate eight and one-half (8.5) percent of Employee’s SURS-eligible earnings as the Board contribution on behalf of the Employee in satisfaction of the Employee's required contribution to the Illinois State Universities Retirement System. The purpose of this section is to allow such Board contribution for retirement to be tax sheltered after the qualifying period of time has been met and to the extent allowed by the appropriate statutes and regulations. Both parties acknowledge that the Employee did not have the option of choosing to receive the contributed amounts directly, instead of having such contributions paid by the Board to the State Retirement System, and that such contributions are made as a condition of employment to secure the Employee's future services, knowledge and experience.

  • Employees Not to Benefit Texas Transportation Commission policy mandates that employees of the Texas Department of Transportation shall not accept any benefit, gift or favor from any person doing business with or who reasonably speaking may do business with the State under this contract. The only exceptions allowed are ordinary business lunches and items that have received the advance written approval of the Executive Director of the Texas Department of Transportation.

  • Contractor Employee Conduct The Contractor’s employees shall adhere to the standards of conduct prescribed in the Customer’s personnel policy and procedure guidelines, particularly rules of conduct, security procedures, and any other applicable rules, regulations, policies and procedures of the Customer. The Contractor shall ensure that the Contractor’s employees wear attire suitable for the position, either a standard uniform or business casual dress.

  • Employees and Compensation (A) Shown on Schedule 6.15(A) is a list of the name of each employee, sales agent or other Person, separately identified as to part-time or full-time, who is currently employed in the Business by Seller, together with each Person’s job classification, date of hire, and current rate of compensation (or method for computing same). All employees of Seller are “at will” employees whose employment may be terminated by Seller at any time, with or without notice or cause. (B) Schedule 6.15(B) hereto lists all compensation and benefit plans, contracts and arrangements maintained, sponsored or participated in by Seller or any of its Affiliates in connection with the Business and in effect as of the date hereof including, without limitation, all pension (including all such employee pension benefit plans as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), profit-sharing, savings and thrift, fringe benefit, bonus, incentive or deferred compensation, severance pay and medical and life insurance plans and employee welfare plans as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA that are sponsored by Seller or any of its Affiliates and in which any employees of Seller participate (collectively, “Employee Benefit Plans”). (C) As to Employee Benefit Plans sponsored by Seller or its Affiliates that are “employee pension benefit plans” as defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, such plans sponsored by Seller or its Affiliates are tax qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code, are not currently under examination by, nor are any matters pending before, the Internal Revenue Service, the Employee Benefits Security Administration or any quasi-government agency, are not subject to any claim, suit or arbitration (other than routine claims for benefits), are not subject to the minimum funding standards of Code Section 412, are in compliance with and have been administered in accordance with their terms and in compliance with all applicable requirements of law, including, but not limited to, the Code and ERISA, and there have been no prohibited transactions as defined in Code Section 4975 or ERISA Section 406 with respect to such plans that could subject Seller or its Affiliates to a tax or penalty under Code Section 4975 or ERISA Section 502(i). (D) Neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates has incurred any Liability under Title IV of ERISA that has or could, after the Effective Date, become a Lien upon any of the Purchased Assets pursuant to ERISA Section 4068. (E) Neither Seller nor any of its Affiliates is or has ever been required to contribute to any “multiemployer plan,” as such term is defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, in which any employees of Seller in connection with the Business participate. (F) Except as set forth in Schedule 6.15(F), no Employee Benefit Plan provides medical, surgical, hospitalization, death or similar benefits (whether or not insured) for employees for period extending beyond their retirement or other termination of service, other than (i) coverage mandated by applicable law, or (ii) death benefits under any pension plan. (G) For the purposes of this Section 6.15, Seller shall include all trades or business under common control with Seller as provided in the regulations under Code Section 414(c).

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