Limitations of the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations Related to Transfers of Intellectual Property Rights in Case of Employment Creations

Zuzana Vlachová

In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 4. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2020, pp. 198-223. ISBN 978-80-568-0329-5.

Summary: The purpose of this paper was to examine the limits of the law applicable for contracts in the field of private international law related to intellectual property rights (licensing contracts or transfers of intellectual property rights) in situations, where the intangible assets are created by employees within the employment relationships, which nowadays also often include cross-border elements. These situations are on the one hand closely connected with the intellectual property law but on the other hand also with the labour law, so it is necessary to define the scope of application of these two laws, especially regarding the question of the initial ownership of intellectual property rights. Although opinions on this issue differ, it appears that law of the country of protection (lex loci protectionis) always has to be considered in these relationships, both in field of copyright and industrial rights. Thus, the employment contracts shall be drafted carefully respecting the possible future dispositions with the intellectual property rights, mainly to increase predictability and legal certainty not only within the employment contract, but also in the prospective contracts with the third parties.

URL: http://ntidv.iuridica.truni.sk/archive/ntidv-4/NTIDV-4-Vlachova-Zuzana.pdf

Bibliographic Citation

VLACHOVÁ, Z. Limity obligačního statutu u mezinárodních převodů práv k duševnímu vlastnictví u zaměstnaneckých výtvorů. In: ADAMOVÁ, Z. (ed.) Nové technológie, internet a duševné vlastníctvo 4. Trnava: Typi Universitatis Tyrnaviensis, spoločné pracovisko Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave a VEDY, vydavateľstva Slovenskej akadémie vied, 2020, pp. 198-223. ISBN 978-80-568-0329-5.