Creative employees and ownership of intellectual property: two different tales.

Lauterbach, Thorsten

Abstract

Intellectual property law treats creative employees differently, depending on whether their efforts lead to particular outcomes. Two recent decisions illustrate the approach taken by patent law on the one hand where the English Patent Court handed compensation to two employee inventors for the first time; on the other hand, even if an employer benefits from an employee creating a useful copyright work, once the work has been created in the course of employment, there is no scope to give some extra reward to the employee, as reinforced by a court in South Africa.

Citation

LAUTERBACH, T. 2009. Creative employees and ownership of intellectual property: two different tales. Scottish law gazette, 77(2), pages 65-68.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 30, 2009
• Publication Date: Apr 30, 2009
• Deposit Date: Feb 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 20, 2024
• Journal: Scottish law gazette
• Print ISSN: 0036-9314
• Publisher: Scottish Law Agents Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 65-68
• Keywords: Intellectual property law; Creatives; Employees; Patent law; Inventors; Copyright
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2243431