Re: 좀 늦은 감이 있지만...그래도 참고하시라구요..^^

제가 소장하고 있는 자료 ("Intellectual Property Management in Enterprises")에 찾으시는 내용이 있어서 발췌했습니다. 서문연님 답변 참고로 하셨으면 별 문제 없으셨겠지만... 그래도 늦게나마 도움이 될까해서요..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Remuneration for intellectual property Regarding how to deal with inventions made in an enterprise, with a significance of intellectual property, it is extremely important for an enterprise to remunerate fairly and properly those engineers who have contributed to the profits of the enterprise and award them with some commendation to promote inventions by encouraging them to participate in sound and active inventive activities. Regarding invention remuneration, every enterprise establishes its own invention remuneration system based on the provisions in the Patent Law, Article 35. Commendation of inventions may be made independently as an awarding system, however, it may be combined with a remuneration system to form an incentive system. In either case, it is of vital importance to carry it out under a solid system. In the practical application of remuneration and commendation, it is desirable to lay down provisions for employee’s inventions in an enterprise. The contents of the provisions should be made referring to the provisions stipulated in the aforementioned Patent Law, and not that different from them. However, they may be different in the details according to individual company policy, business activity, corporate size, etc. It is common to pay some money for remuneration depending on classified types of remuneration. The following types of remuneration are often provided, and money for them is paid taking into account an assessment of ranks. In each case, objects to be remunerated and standards for remuneration should be made in advance. (1) Remuneration for assignment (양도 보상) This is a remuneration that an enterprise pays to an inventor when the enterprise has succeeded in utilizing his invention. The amount of money for remuneration may vary depending on the type of case, for instance, a case to be filed, a case to be publicly known to, or a case not to be publicly known to, etc. However, the amount of money paid in each case of remuneration will be, in many occasions, a fixed one. (2) Remuneration for application (출원 보상) This is a remuneration that an enterprise pays to an inventor when the enterprise has filed an application. In general, it has the character of compensation for laying open an application to the public within a certain period of time after the application, and a fixed amount of money for each application seems to be paid in many cases. Provisions for joint application and joint inventions should be made. (3) Remuneration for registration (등록 보상) This is a remuneration that an enterprise pays to an inventor when an invention filed for application was examined and a patent right was granted. A fixed amount of money seems to be paid in many occasions. However, the amount may be decided taking into account the number of claims, or depending on the outcome of the eval‎uation for the invention. Transactions for the case of joint applications and joint inventions are the same as for the case of remuneration for application. In some enterprises, they do not remunerate an inventor on the grounds that the transfer of the right was already finished. (4) Remuneration for business performances (비즈니스 성과 보상) This is a remuneration that an enterprise pays to an inventor depending on the degree of contribution made by his invention to the business performance when the patent right was utilized by the enterprise. It remunerates the inventor by eval‎uating the performance of the invention every year using a definite eval‎uation standard. In general, the amount of money for remuneration is higher than that for remuneration for assignment, application, and registration, and is divided into several ranks and linked to the degree of contribution to the profits of the enterprise. Recently some enterprises announced that they assessed the degree of contribution made by engineers’ patents from the managerial point of view and paid them a huge amount of money as remuneration from several million yen to tens of millions of yen.   (5) Remuneration for license (실시 보상) It depends on a policy or strategy of an enterprise if the enterprise grants license to other companies or not. Many enterprises are undertaking to promote patent license to improve a balance of payment on patents. Granting license to other companies will be a great incentive to the inventors. In general, the amount of money corresponding to a certain percent of the license fee is paid to the inventor as remuneration. In some cases of cross license, an enterprise can not get income through a license fee, however, when there are some difficulties in judging which patent has made what sort of contribution to the enterprise, the enterprise is remunerating inventors in a similar way to the case of granting license by its own ways after studying the most suitable assessment method to the enterprise.