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Employee's Invention Goes to Employer


 
Who Gets The Invention - Employer or Employee?

Liffe Administration and Management v Pinkava and another
CA
15 March 2007
Weekly Law Reports Summary

Where an employee was under a general duty to innovate new products for his or her employer, had the time to do so and did so in the employer’s time, and the circumstances were such that an invention might reasonably be expected to result from carrying out his duties, the employer was entitled to claim ownership in those inventions.

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