| "increasingly it is corporations, not people, who own inventions. This ownership runs deeper than inventions and artistic works, extending to skills, ideas and professional ties à ?? tacit knowledge and social relations that cannot be subject to patent or copyright under the traditional scope of intellectual property, but which corporations lay claim to at increasing rates through employment agreements. Moreover, unlike other high-patenting countries like Germany, Finland, Japan and China, which require businesses to pay the inventor who assigns an invention to them, American intellectual property law lacks any requirements that employers compensate employees for the fruits of their creative labors above their regular salary. With more corporations demanding that employees pre-assign their intellectual property, there has been a steady decrease in inventor-owned patents. |
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