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Criteria for Determining Employee Inventions by Senior Corporate Executives
The SPC issued a final judgment in a series of disputes over patent ownership, upholding the first instance decision. The SPC made it clear that, where a senior corporate executive obtains a patent for themselves or for others in breach of their duties of loyalty and non-competition obligations, such patent lacks a legal basis. The SPC also confirmed that a total of eleven patents and patent applications, including the patent in question, constituted employee inventions.
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