Article 117
(1) Regulations and applications by the employer against the workers in the manner of being contrary to the provisions regarding workers’ inventions of this Book shall not be allowed. The parties’ contract authorization regarding workers’ inventions begins, for in-service inventions, after the patent application; for independent inventions, after the worker’s obligation of notification to the employer.
(2) The agreements made between employers and workers regarding in-service inventions and independent inventions shall not be considered valid, if not considerably equitable; even though they are not against mandatory facts of provisions regarding workers’ inventions. The same rule applies to the determined rates.
(3) Objections regarding the agreement and the determined rates being not equitable, can be made in written within at the latest of six months as of the end of the business contract.