2006년 개정 직무발명제도의 제 문제점 및 재개정방안

• 영문명: Pitfalls of the Amended Employee Invention Act of 2006 and Reamendment Proposals
• 발행기관: 세창출판사
• 저자명: 정차호(Chaho Jung)
• 간행물 정보: 『창작과 권리』2007년 가을호 (제48호), 2~34쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 법학 > 법학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.09.01

영문 초록

Based on the presumption that the employee (inventor) contributes about 30% to create the employee invention and the employer contributes about 70%, the co-ownership system upon which the employee and the employer are considered to jointly own the right to get a patent is more logical than the inventorship system upon which the employee is considered to own all of the right to get a patent. Based on the co-ownership system, the employee invention is originally belonged to both the employee and the employer after completion of the employee invention and thereafter following an applicable succession provision, the employee's portion of right is succeeded to the employer. This way of co-ownership system (1) may logically admit the contributions of the employee and the employer and (2) may prevent malicious application or succession by the employee. The amended Employee Invention Act of 2006 prescribes that (1) in a company which does not have an employee invention succession provision, the employee has all of the right to get a patent and the employer has just free non-exclusive right to exploit the invention and further that (2) without the employer's notice of succession within four months after the employee's report, the employee invention is considered to be a free invention. Those provisions are unconstitutional or at least unreasonable by depriving property right of the employer who has contributed about 70% to create the invention. The amended Employee Invention Act of 2006 mandates the employer to notify the employee of succession intent within four months after the employee's report of the invention. However considering that it is empirically very rare for the employer not to succeed the invention, it should be allowed for the employer to has a provision based on which the invention is automatically succeeded to the employer without a separate non-succession notice. This "automatic succession" may reduce workload of the employer and may prevent possibility of a mistake. In addition, the amended Employee Invention Act blocks the possibility of another succession time by prescribing that the succession time is when the employer notify the employee of succession intent. However, based on the "immediate succession" system, the employee invention may be succeeded to the employer when the employee notifies the employer of the invention. Such "immediate succession" system must be allowed to minimize the possibility for a malicious employee to file a patent application himself or to succeed the invention to the third party.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 발명자주의 v. 사용자주의

Ⅲ. 직무발명에의 종업원(발명자)의 기여도

Ⅳ. 2006년 개정 직무발명제도의 문제점

Ⅴ. 2006년 개정 직무발명제도의 재개정방안

Ⅵ. 결론

참고문헌

Abstract

키워드

직무발명 발명자주의 승계 신고 보상 자동승계 즉시승계 Employee Invention In-service Invention Inventorship System Assignment Notice Report Compensation. Automatic Assignment On-spot Assignment