Protection of Economic Rights for Inventors: A Review of Employment Relations

Abstract

This research aims to find out and analyze legal protection process in employee/civil servant as an inventor to obtain economic rights, legal protection procedure performed by employee/civil servant as an inventor if not agree on patent ownership and benefits because not suitable on economic value. In addition, this research explores government role in the future to regulate, provide rewards and legal protection especially, for employees or works as inventors. The implementation of rewards and legal protection for employee/civil servant still less than optimal so motivation of researcher and inventor low. Indonesian’s culture not receive patents rights as private rights, the low of human resources and ignorance of researches on potential patent as legal protection effort by patent registration. Legal effort on viable granting for employee/civil servant encountered many obstacles namely rewards and legal protection for employee/civil servant as researcher who bounded on working relationship with company has not set up in national legal system. Granting royalty barriers to inventor’s status civil servant is caused by the lack of rule in application of integrated inter-agency implementation of non-tax state revenues and inventor rights as civil servant rules.

Keywords: Legal Protection, Invention, Employment Relations