Employees’ Inventions and Model Agreements for Industry-Research CollaborationEmployees’ Inventions and Model Agreements for Industry-Research Collaboration • November 28th, 2014
Recently, employees’ inventions, including inventions made by researchers/professors at universities, are discussed in many countries of the world quite extensively. This applies e.g. to Japan, where several courts apparently have issued interesting decisions with regard to a well-justified, reasonable remuneration that employees of Japanese companies should be entitled to get in case of at least very successful economical use of such inventions by their Japanese employers. Apparently, in this regard mainly two questions are under dispute between the parties involved in the various cases as pending in Japan, namely, first, in which manner the term “reasonable compensation” in Article 35 of the Japanese Patent Law should be interpreted, the other question being the manner in which a commercial use of a patent - covering an invention made, in the simplest case, by a Japanese inventor in Japan during his employment with a Japanese manufacturer and company (employer), respectively - in a f
