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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Right to Employee Inventions in Patent Law: Debunking the Myth of Incentive Theory by Kazuhide Odaki
Challenging popular assumptions this book provides a solution to a critical issue by arguing that compensation for employee inventions should not be made mandatory regardless of jurisdiction because there is no legitimate reason to require employers to pay it. Through reference to studies in social psychology and econometrics the book argues that compensation is unlikely to boost the motivation productivity and creativity of employee inventors and thereby encourage the creation of inventions. It also discusses the ownership of inventions made by university researchers giving due consideration to the need to ensure open science and their academic freedom.