About this book:
Employees’ Intellectual Property Rights describes and analyses employers’ acquisition of employees’ intellectual property rights in thirty-four different jurisdictions worldwide collectively representing all habitable continents. In today’s knowledge-based global economy, most inventions are made by employed persons through their employers’ research and development activities. However, methods of establishing rights over an employee’s intellectual property assets are relatively uncertain in the absence of international solutions. Given that increasingly more businesses establish entities in different countries and more employees co-operate across borders, it becomes essential for companies to be able to establish the conditions under which ownership subsists in intellectual property created in employment relationships in various countries. This book provides a distinctive perspective on the ownership aspect of intellectual property rights.
 
What’s in this book:

With the addition of a new chapter, Uganda, this revised and updated second edition was developed within the framework of the AIPPI, a non-affiliated, non-profit organization dedicated to improving and promoting the protection of intellectual property at both national and international levels. Among the issues and topics covered by the forty-nine distinguished contributors are the following:

•  different approaches in different law systems;
•  choice of law for contracts;
•  harmonizing international jurisdiction rules;
•  conditions for recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments;
• employees’ rights in copyright, semiconductor chips, inventions, designs, plant varieties and utility models on a country-by-country basis;
• employee remuneration right;
• parties’ duty to inform; and
• instances for disputes.

How this will help you:
With its wealth of information on an increasingly important subject for practitioners in every jurisdiction, this book is sure to be put to constant use by corporate lawyers and in-house counsel everywhere. It provides detailed information on which practitioners can build strategies in cases involving employees’ intellectual property rights. It is also exceptionally valuable as a thorough resource for academics and researchers interested in the international harmonization of intellectual property law.

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

List of Abbreviations

PART I
A Legislative Overview

CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Employees Intellectual Property Rights
Sanna Wolk

CHAPTER 2
Choice of Law
Gyooho Lee

CHAPTER 3
Jurisdiction
Benedetta Ubertazzi

CHAPTER 4
Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
Marketa Trimble

PART II
National Legal Rules

A In Europe

CHAPTER 5
Ownership and Harmonisation Efforts at EU Level
Sanna Wolk

CHAPTER 6
Belgium
Hendrik Vanhees

CHAPTER 7
Denmark
Jeppe Brinck-Jensen, Morten Rosenmeier & Helene Egede Scotwin

CHAPTER 8
Finland
Niklas Bruun & Marja-Leena Mansala

CHAPTER 9
France
Michel Abello, Jérôme Tassi & Estelle Vard

CHAPTER 10
Germany 121
Jan Bernd Nordemann & Christian Czychowski

CHAPTER 11
Hungary
Gusztáv Bacher

CHAPTER 12
Italy
Andrea Ottolia

CHAPTER 13
Latvia
Ilmars Šatovs

CHAPTER 14
Lithuania
Edita Ivanauskiene

CHAPTER 15
The Netherlands
Rogier de Vrey & Willem Hoorneman

CHAPTER 16
Poland
Kacper Szkalej

CHAPTER 17
Portugal
Lígia Gutierrez Setúbal

CHAPTER 18
Slovenia
Elizabeta Zirnstein & Špelca Mežnar

CHAPTER 19
Spain
Luis-Alfonso Durán & Laura Nadal

CHAPTER 20
Sweden
Sanna Wolk

CHAPTER 21
Switzerland
Yaniv Benhamou & Cyrill Rieder

CHAPTER 22
Turkey
Ekrem Soylu & Korcan Dericioglu

CHAPTER 23
The United Kingdom
Belinda Isaac

B In Asia

CHAPTER 24
China
Ella Cheong & Li Luo

CHAPTER 25
Hong Kong
Ella Cheong

CHAPTER 26
Japan
Tsugizo Kubo

CHAPTER 27
Republic of Korea
Gyooho Lee

CHAPTER 28
Singapore
Susanna Leong

C In Oceania

CHAPTER 29
Australia Rights in Intellectual Property Created in Employment
Ann Monotti

D In North America

CHAPTER 30
Canada
Norman Siebrasse

CHAPTER 31
United States of America
Joseph Jeffrey Hawley, Marketa Trimble & Darryl C. Wilson

E In Latin America

CHAPTER 32
Argentina
Martín Bensadon

CHAPTER 33
Brazil
Elisabeth Kasznar Fekete

CHAPTER 34
Chile
Cristóbal Porzio

CHAPTER 35
Colombia
José Roberto Herrera Díaz

CHAPTER 36
Ecuador
Maria Rosa Fabara Vera, Pablo F