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: IP Spotlight

UK court holds employee-inventor entitled to ?fair share? compensation

By Jim Singer

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Companies who patent inventions developed in the United Kingdom should take note of a new UK court decision that awarded two inventor-employees ? 1.5 million (approximately $2.175 million in US dollars) for their contribution to an employer’s heart imaging diagnostic tool product.  In the UK, the Patents Act of 1977 allows a court to award an employee compensation [...]

Full post as published by IP Spotlight on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).

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