Special aspects of the legal regulation of payment of remuneration to employees for their innovative activities within the framework of carrying out their employment duties

The national economy of any country cannot develop effectively without the constant involvement of new knowledge and the results of scientific achievements. At present the results of intellectual activity most often are employment-based, therefore they are created not only thanks to their authors, but also thanks to the employers who provide conditions for innovative activity. The most obvious form of real benefit to an employee for the transfer of rights to his or her invention is money or money equivalent. In relation to this issue a question arises: what amount of money shall be considered as fair, reasonable and sufficient? In that context, this paper, using the example of the regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation (Rules for the remuneration payment for employee inventions, utility models and industrial designs, 2020) and Japan (Japanese Patent Law, 1959, as amended in 2015) examines the special aspects of legal regulation that determine the grounds for paying remuneration to employees for their innovative activities as part of their employment duties.

Patent Law, remuneration for employee inventions, for employee utility models, for employee industrial designs, innovative activity of employees, labor duties of employees, reasonable remuneration for employee invention in Japan