Martin Brion

AD Article

Programme de rémunération supplémentaire porté à la connaissance du salarié : condition suffisante mais pas nécessaire pour mettre en route la prescription de l’action en rémunération supplémentaire de l’inventeur salarié

Un programme de rémunération supplémentaire porté à la connaissance du salarié : une condition suffisante mais pas nécessaire à la mise en route de la prescription de l’action en rémunération supplémentaire de l’inventeur salarié. Par un arrêt du 1er avril 2022, la Cour d’appel de Paris confirme l’application des règles de prescription de l’action en rémunération supplémentaire des inventeurs salariés découlant de la réforme de la prescription de 2008 : le délai de prescription triennal court à partir du moment où le salarié avait connaissance des faits lui permettant d’exercer l’action.

AD Article

IP rights on software and inventions made by interns or other persons not benefiting from an employment contract or the status of public official: an apparent alignment with the regime for employees, although some questions remain pending

In application of the law n°2020-1674 on research programming for the years 2021 to 2030 (the "research programming law"), the ordinance n°2021-1658 dated December 15, 2021 introduces  the articles L.611-7-1 and L. 113—-9 of the Intellectual Property Code (IPC hereinafter), which are likely to  align the regime of attribution of intellectual property rights on software and inventions made by third-parties (non employees) hosted within the framework of an agreement by a legal entity carrying out research activities, with the one applicable to employees and public official. Interns, foreign doctoral students, professors or director emeritus and people on International voluntary service in a company (Volontariat international en entreprise (VIE)) may be concerned as well.

AD Article

Prescription of additional remuneration: the trend in case law is confirmed (again)

An order of the Paris Court of justice of 25 June 2021[1] confirms the rules governing the application over time of the successive provisions on statute of limitations for claims for additional remuneration of employees' inventions (1). In this decision, and in an earlier decision of December 2020[2], the Court also recalls the rules for assessing the starting point of the limitation period in concreto (2).

AD Article

Limitation period for employees’ additional remuneration: the trend in case law is confirmed

On December 5, 2019, the Paris court issued a ruling on the statute of limitations for an employee's claim for additional compensation for a mission invention.

AD Article

Additional remuneration of employees’ inventions: the end of non-applicability of the statute of limitations?

Additional remuneration of employees’ inventions: the end of non-applicability of the statute of limitations? The starting point of the statute of limitations for the additional remuneration owed to employee inventors: application of the provisions of Article 2224 of the French Civil Code resulting from Act no. 2008-561 of June 17, 2008, reforming the statute of limitations in civil matters.