Article 118
(1) The worker shall be obliged to provide necessary information and help in order to be able to obtain a patent. And the employer shall be obliged to provide the worker with the copies of the application made to obtain a patent and supplemental documents; and to inform the progress during the process of the application, upon the worker’s request.
(2) The employer shall be obliged, before the payment of the rate which is demanded by the worker due to their in-service invention, to notify the worker of the situation if they renounce the patent application or patent rights. Upon the worker’s request, the employer must transfer, at the worker’s own cost, the patent rights or documents required to obtain a patent to the worker. If the worker does not respond to the notification that is made regarding this matter within three months as of the date of notification, the employer can renounce the patent application and the rights provided by the patent.
(3) The employer can reserve, for a decent fee, a non-monopolized right to benefit from the in-service invention together with the notification specified in paragraph 2.
(4) Rights and obligations generated from worker’s invention shall not be effected by the work contract being expired.