A basic principle relating to service inventions is that an employee, as the inventor, should be reasonably awarded and remunerated for the invention created. Major laws and regulations like the PRC Patent Law (中华人民共和国专利法) govern service inventions and reflect this principle.
Opinion: Inventing the rules on service inventions
For the first time, draft Regulations on service inventions have given a procedural framework for defining and reporting inventions, but they are hampered by a lack of clarity
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