The Right of Inventor under the Patent Law of Thailand, UK, and Germany

Abstract

The Thai Patent Act B.E. 2522 provides the individual or independent inventors to be entitled to file for a patent. If the invention is made by employee inventors under the employment contract, an employer shall have right to file a patent appliction. If the employer uses or gets a benafit from a patent on employee invention, employee inventors will receive remuneration in addition to his ordinary wage. The UK Patent Act 1977 makes the provisions for employee invention the case law under the Common Law system in practice. The German Act on Employee Inventions 1957 Act prescrices that the employee inventors have a duty to make a report in writing about the invention to the employer so that he has to decide whether he wants the invention for himself (Service invention) or gives it to the employee (Frr invention). The employee inventor is entitled to receive remuneration for service invention under the in-depth and clear regulations.