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30 March 2010
Issue: 7266 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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Liffe Administration and Management v Pinkava [2007] EWCA Civ 217, [2007] All ER (D) 258 (Mar)

Where an employee is under a general duty to innovate new products for his employer, has the time to do so and did so in the employer’s time, and the circumstances were such that an invention might reasonably be expected to result from carrying out his duties, the employer is entitled to claim ownership of those inventions.

 

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