By Shoichi Okuyama
The employee invention scheme in Japan, which was initially modeled after the German system, was again revised in 2015, and the new scheme took effect on April 1, 2016. I would first like to summarize the changes made, and then put these changes into the perspective of events since the Patent Act came into effect some 50 years ago.
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