Law on Employees' Inventions - McDermott Will & Emery

Law on Employees’ Inventions

Overview


The work of an employee can result in a patentable invention, software that is copyright protected, or in other forms of intellectual property. The chapter in Tschöpe’s “Labor Law Manual” handbook on labor law, written by Dr. Henrik Holzapfel, explains the claims and obligations of employer and employee under the law on employees’ inventions, and under similar regulations in copyright law.