If you are concerned with the issue of employee inventor
compensation, as mentioned in my article, let me congratulate you,
because you are having a happy problem – you do not have to
be concerned if you are not making a huge profit from your
invention.
Comparing to other jurisdictions, China is very generous to the
inventors, reflected by the legal requirements on compensation
after the patent is commercially exploited within the term of the
patent as below:
- for invention patent or utility model, not less than 2% of the
profit;
- for design patent, not less than 0.2% of the profit; and
- not less than 10% of the license fee.
The good news is, compensation is to be calculated based on
contribution of the invention to the profit (much like assessing
patent infringement compensation), and the number of inventors
