Abstract
The purpose of Patent Law is, through promoting the protection and the utilization of inventions, to encourage inventions, and thereby to contribute to the development of industry. Thus, the concept of the Patent Law affects the promotion of the future innovation, and then, revision of the Patent Law attracts attention in recent years. On July 10, this year, revised Patent Law was promulgated, and provisions about the employee's invention were revised. Under the current system, the patent rights (the rights to obtain patents) of inventions invented in companies belong to inventors, and transferred to corporations. After this Patent Law revision, the patent rights (the rights to obtain patents) belong to corporations from the beginning. With introduction of this revised employee's invention system, the consideration that does not obstruct incentive to invention will be necessary in future.
