Employee invention law

Dinter, Kreißig & Partner advises its clients comprehensively on all questions of employee invention law, in particular on questions of contractual arrangements in practice.

The German Employee Inventions Act (ArbEG - "Gesetz über Erfindungen von Arbeitnehmern") regulates various areas that are important for inventions in the work environment, such as disclosure of the invention to the employer and the claiming of the invention by the employer, the co-inventor provision, inventions in university operations, the obligation to file a property right application in Germany and the notification obligations of the employer. The principles for calculating the inventor's remuneration are also important.

The remuneration models frequently chosen in practice provide for lump-sum payments, for example, or are based on so-called incentive systems.