{"id":1859,"date":"2014-07-01T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2014-06-06T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T12:10:14","slug":"legal-rights-of-employees-inventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.startups.ch\/en\/legal-rights-of-employees-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal rights of employees’ inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"

When an employee comes up with an invention, he does not necessarily own its legal rights. This blog will underline the legal rights of employees’ inventions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Different types of inventions
\n<\/strong>The Swiss federal law considers three different types of inventions; the contractual invention, inventions on the job and the free invention. Depending on the type of invention, the employee has different rights.<\/p>\n

Contractual invention <\/strong>
\nThis occurs when employees come up with an invention during their work and in fulfilment of their contractual duties. In this case, the employer owns the legal rights of the invention and is not required to pay any form of compensation. However, the employee has the right to be named as official inventor. <\/p>\n

Invention on the job <\/strong>
\nThis occurs when an employee comes up with an invention during his work, but not <\/em>in fulfilment of his contractual duties. In this case, the employee owns all the legal rights to his invention. However, the contract of employment may include a regulation regarding these types of inventions. In this case, the employer can trade the invention in return for a bonus, if the invention seriously competes with the company\u2019s operations. <\/p>\n

Free invention <\/strong>
\nHere the employee owns all the rights to his invention. This is the case when an employee comes up with an invention outside of his working hours and not in fulfilment of his contractual duties. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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