Patent law: New rules for German professors

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5596, 2002, Pages

  Kilger, Christian ^a   Bartenbach, Kurt ^a  

^a University GmbH   (Germany)

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LAW ENFORCEMENT;

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; EDUCATION; GERMANY; LAW; PATENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TEACHER; TECHNOLOGY; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 0037044904     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075269     Document Type: Short Survey

References (20)

1. Under the ArbGE, a German scientist and a U.S. scientist working for the same firm may receive differential financial recognition for a joint invention. Many multinational firms have incentive schemes, so that a certain amount of money is paid for patentable inventions to inventors in countries that, unlike Germany, do not have federal guidelines for compensation of employees.
2. The privilege applied to full professors, associate professors, and lecturers in full-time employment. Visiting professors only fell under the exemption if they were employed full-time.
3. K. Bartenbach, F. E. Volz, in Arbeitnehmererfinderrecht, K. Haertel, A. Krieger, G. Kaube, Eds. (Luchterhand, Neuwied, 2001), pp. v-vi.
4. K. Bartenbach, O, Hellebrand, Mitt. D. Dt. Patentanw. 93, 165-170 (2002).
5. bis of the Italian patent law as of October 2002, passed as law no. 383 on 18 October 2001
6. Before passage of the new Legislation, the invention belonged to the university, provided that the employment contract indicated that the invention was a research target to be pursued. The inventor had the right to obtain a supplementary compensation.
7. V. Piccarreta, personal communication
8. L. Hoarton, personal communication.
9. E. Logeais, personal communication
10. B. Hertel, personal communication.
11. www.mpg.de/deutsch/ueber/zahlen.html
12. from BundesbildungsministerIum 1999; available at www.berlinews.de/archiv/2382.shtml
13. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, www.bmbf.de
14. www.bmbf.de/677-3283.html.
15. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, "Erfindungen für den Markt - Die BMBF-Verwertungsoffensive."
16. EU Workshop Relating to the "Patenting vs. Publishing Dilemma" and the Grace Period Issue, Brussels, 24 June 2002.
17. U.S. Government Accounting Office Report to Congressional Committees, Technology Transfer, Administration of the Bayh-Dole Act by Research Universities, 7 May 1998, see www.cogr.edu/bayh-dole.htm.
18. Association of University Technology Managers Licensing Survey (2000).
19. F-E Volz, Das Recht der Arbeitnehmererfindung im Öffentlichen Dienst (Carl Heymanns Verlag KG, Cologne, 1985), pp, 9-19.
20. X. Biberfeld, G.R.U.R. [Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht] (1898), p. 186.