Default (statutory) regime for the ownership | Creator / successor in title |
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Default (statutory) regime for employee’s creations | In relation to inventions: Employer is obligated and solely entitled to a reported domestic login service invention to grant a property right. If the employee's invention has become free, so only the employee is entitled, they must register for the grant of a property right. The service invention, the employer had already registered for the grant of a property right, then, the rights of the application is transferred to the employee. In relation to industrial designs: Employer, unless otherwise agreed in the contract. |
Ownership of research results in publicly sponsored research | Information not available |
Specific ownership rules for public HEIs/research organisations and possibility to modify it contractually | Information not available |
Specific ownership regime for students/ visiting researchers/doctoral students and possibility to modify it contractually | Information not available |
Related law (name & link) |
Law on Employees' Inventions of 1957 |
Germany