2025-05-13 2025-05-13 , online online, 1,280 € zzgl. MwSt. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Karge https://www.forum-institut.de/seminar/25111132-employee-inventions-and-international-r-d/referenten/25/25_11/25111132-course-employee-inventions-and-international-rd_karge-peter.jpg Employee Inventions and International R&D

This online course shall provide a sound overview about different local laws in important countries in EU and beyond with respect to employee invention rights. It shall enable the participants to address complex situations when designing and negotiating agreements for cross-border R&D.

The contents of your online course
  • Employee invention law: overview on Europe, US and Asia
  • Inventor remuneration - rights and obligations
  • National laws vs. international cooperation/research
  • Harmonised remuneration/incentive systems in globally acting companies
  • Consequences for international R&D


Who should attend
You are tasked with dealing with employee inventions and would like to know best practices?

Then this online course is intended for you. Knowledge of patent law is required.
The objectives of your online course
A variety of separate national laws provides local solutions to questions regarding the allocation of rights resulting from employee inventions, their transfer to the employer and the relevant remuneration claims of the inventors. These problems need to be resolved in R&D agreements between cooperation partners in cross-border scenarios, within a multinational group of companies, and in situations of employee delegation or dislocation of R&D activities.

This online course shall provide a sound overview about different local laws in important countries in EU and beyond with respect to employee invention rights. It shall enable the participants to address complex situations when designing and negotiating agreements for cross-border R&D.
Your benefit

After the course, you will

  • have an overview about relevant national laws on employee inventions,
  • be able to deal with employee inventions in cross-border R&D agreements,
  • know how to set up a multi-country remuneration/incentive system which is harmonised.

Course - Employee Inventions and International R&D

Employee Inventions and International R&D

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Termin

27/11/2025

27/11/2025

Zeitraum

from 09:00 to 17:00 CET

from 09:00 to 17:00 CET
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online

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Jean-Claude Alexandre Ho, LL.M.
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This online course shall provide a sound overview about different local laws in important countries in EU and beyond with respect to employee invention rights. It shall enable the participants to address complex situations when designing and negotiating agreements for cross-border R&D.

The contents of your online course

  • Employee invention law: overview on Europe, US and Asia
  • Inventor remuneration - rights and obligations
  • National laws vs. international cooperation/research
  • Harmonised remuneration/incentive systems in globally acting companies
  • Consequences for international R&D


Who should attend
You are tasked with dealing with employee inventions and would like to know best practices?

Then this online course is intended for you. Knowledge of patent law is required.

The objectives of your online course

A variety of separate national laws provides local solutions to questions regarding the allocation of rights resulting from employee inventions, their transfer to the employer and the relevant remuneration claims of the inventors. These problems need to be resolved in R&D agreements between cooperation partners in cross-border scenarios, within a multinational group of companies, and in situations of employee delegation or dislocation of R&D activities.

This online course shall provide a sound overview about different local laws in important countries in EU and beyond with respect to employee invention rights. It shall enable the participants to address complex situations when designing and negotiating agreements for cross-border R&D.

Your benefit

After the course, you will

  • have an overview about relevant national laws on employee inventions,
  • be able to deal with employee inventions in cross-border R&D agreements,
  • know how to set up a multi-country remuneration/incentive system which is harmonised.

Detailed programme

from 09:00 to 17:00 CET

The laws on employee inventions in different countries
  • Legal situation in Europe and worldwide: no harmonisation
  • Classification and duty of disclosure of inventions
  • Allocation of invention rights
  • Transfer of invention rights to the employer
  • Inventor remuneration
  • Overview on Europe, US and Asia

Delegation of employees and applicable law
  • Contractual options
  • Legal boundaries

Consequences for international Research & Development
  • Growing number of cooperation agreements
  • Open innovation
  • How to find the applicable law? / National laws vs. international cooperation
  • Special problems regarding cooperation with universities
  • Joint inventions: filing, cost allocation and rights to use
  • Centralized patent administration in companies
  • Overview regarding possible contractual provisions

Employee inventions and technology transfer
  • Allocation of rights
  • Technology transfer within international groups
  • Cross-licenses

Harmonised remuneration/incentive systems in globally acting companies
  • Incentive systems
  • Legal boundaries

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CPD: 6.5 hours

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