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Law Relating to Inventions of Employees
§ 1 Field of application
Inventions and technical improvement proposals of employees in the private and public service, of officials and soldiers are subject to this law.
§ 2 Inventions
Inventions according to this law are only inventions, which are patentable or can be protected as utility models.
§ 4 Bounded and free inventions
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(1)
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Employees’ inventions according to this law can be bound or free inventions. |
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(2)
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Bounded inventions (official inventions) are inventions, which have been made during the validity of an employment contract, and which either
- originate from the activity that is executed by the employee in the company or public administration, or
- are substantially based upon experience or works of the company or of the public administration
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(3)
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Other inventions of employees are free inventions. However, they are subject to the limitations according to §§ 18 and 19. |
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(4)
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The paragraphs (1 through 3) are correspondingly applicable to inventions of officials and soldiers. |
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