Employee’s Inventions

The requirements of ArbEG may be unknown to companies abroad that employ workers in Germany. Companies that employ German workers or acquire German entities must consider with the unique provisions of German law governing how companies acquire ownership of the inventions of employees. Questions of whether employee inventions are, indeed, assigned to the employer can be quite challenging, and may be problematic when patents on these inventions are asserted in court.

Contents

Inventorship
Right to the Invention
Co-Ownership
Entitlement to the Invention
Act on Employees’ Inventions