{"id":12601,"date":"2022-04-05T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boehmert.de\/our-practice\/legal-areas\/arbeitnehmererfinderrecht\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:23:46","slug":"employee-inventions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.boehmert.de\/en\/our-practice\/legal-areas\/employee-inventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Inventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='full_slider_1'  class='avia-fullwidth-slider main_color avia-shadow   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap fullsize'  ><div  class='avia-slideshow av-m656pv0f-33457714acb67b572a51f927a7f92367 avia-slideshow-no scaling av_slideshow_full avia-slide-slider av-slideshow-ui av-control-default av-slideshow-manual av-loop-once av-loop-manual-endless av-default-height-applied   avia-slideshow-1' 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itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>During patent infringement proceedings it turns out that the patent does not even belong to the company filing suit but to an employee who had made the invention during his time there. How could this happen even though the company had registered the invention with the Patent Office and had obtained patent protection in time-consuming examination procedures?<\/p>\n<p>In most legal systems, an invention that an employee makes in the company automatically, or at least according to the employment agreement, goes to the employer. However, this is not the case in Germany, where a complicated web of mutual rights and duties regulates the collaboration of employees and employers when obtaining patents and utility models.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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Ohne eine genaue Kenntnis der gesetzlichen Regelungen und der einschl\u00e4gigen Rechtsprechung gehen grundlegende Rechte schnell unwiederbringlich verloren, es kann zumindest gro\u00dfer finanzieller Schaden entstehen.<\/p>\n<p>BOEHMERT &amp; BOEHMERT ber\u00e4t seine Mandanten umfassend in allen Fragen des Arbeitnehmererfinderrechts. Wir erarbeiten zusammen mit Unternehmen Verfahrensabl\u00e4ufe von dem Erkennen einer Erfindung \u00fcber die Inanspruchnahme durch den Arbeitgeber bis zur Schutzrechtsanmeldung. F\u00fcr viele kleinere und mittelst\u00e4ndische Unternehmen arbeiten wir wie eine ausgelagerte Patentabteilung und k\u00fcmmern uns auch um die t\u00e4gliche Routine im Umgang mit Erfindern und Schutzrechtsanmeldungen.<\/p>\n<p>Wir schulen Arbeitnehmer und Patentabteilungen darin, Erfindungen zu erfassen, und beraten bei der Ermittlung einer angemessenen Erfinderverg\u00fctung. 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