TIPS^®  Taiwan Intellectual Property Special

Reasonable Remuneration to Employees’ Invention

From Olympus Optical case to Blue Light-Emitting Diode Case in Japan, a serial of rulings regarding “reasonable remuneration to employees’ inventions has raised concerns in all multinational corporations. We now take a glance at the regulations in Taiwan with respect to how the employees are compensated for inventions made for their employment.

In Taiwan, employees' inventions can be classified into 2 categories.