Employee Inventions In France

By Francis Declercq and Didier Intes

  • In France, and by virtue of the French Intellectual Property Code, employees’ inventions are in most cases the property of the employer;
  • In return, employee inventors must be paid financial compensation by the employer;
  • In order to prevent legal disputes with employee inventors, it is important that the employer implements within the company an inventors compensation program.

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