Kim Garsdal Nielsen
High Court Decision Confirms Low Compensations to Inventors Employed to Invent
By Kim Garsdal Nielsen | Posted on May 16, 2012
Decisions are few when it comes to considering the inventor’s right to compensation in accordance with Section 8 of the Danish Act on Employee’s Inventions (Lov om arbejdstageres Opfindelser). Recently the High Court (Østre Landsret) has passed a decision in U.2012.420Ø, confirming that compensations to inventors employed to invent are low. In the case in...
Utility models are not what they used to be, at least not in Germany
By Kim Garsdal Nielsen | Posted on September 7, 2009
The German Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) has ruled that there cannot be any difference between patents and utility models in the requirement for inventive step. Consequently, it will in most cases no longer make any sense to branch off a German utility model from a patent application if the latter is rejected because of lack of...
Tags: Germany, patents, utility models
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