Employee inventions

Employee inventions management & compliance

We help businesses establish robust frameworks for managing employee inventions, ensuring compliance with legal requirements. Our services include drafting and implementing internal policies, providing trainings on employee inventions, structuring ownership agreements, and advising on first filing requirements to secure patent rights effectively.

Collaborative research agreement for construction industry

Establishing a collaborative research agreement between a university and a construction company in their joint research project

Building employee inventions management

Building an employee inventions management system for a construction company and providing trainings for the upper management and head of related departments

Employee inventions dispute resolution

Our team provides expert litigation support in disputes related to employee inventions, including ownership claims, compensation issues, and intellectual property enforcement. We represent clients in negotiations, mediation, and court proceedings to protect their rights and ensure fair outcomes.

Clear ownership path

We mapped contribution flows, redesigned background/foreground IP clauses, and implemented a joint disclosure protocol to resolve the ambiguity over rights in multi-party R&D project with university collaboration that risked delaying filings.

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Systematized employee inventions program

A fast-growing engineering team had scattered disclosures and inconsistent remuneration decisions. We introduced a single disclosure form, defined decision timeframes, and launched a transparent remuneration matrix.

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Compensation dispute settled pre-litigation

We ran an evidence-based valuation and mediated terms based on firm policy and market practice to settle the dispute between the firm and a senior inventor contested ownership and sought higher remuneration avoiding court.

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Our Client Profiles

We work with multinationals operating R&D in Türkiye, local innovators scaling up IP practices, universities and research hospitals, and engineering-heavy sectors including construction, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software/electronics, chemicals, and advanced materials. Whether you’re building your first employee inventions program or refining a mature framework, we tailor to your industry, team size, and global IP posture.

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