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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...

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