Act 3
Industrial Property Act
2014
(3) The technovator shall assist the enterprise, to the best of his
or her ability in any testing, development or use of the technovation.
(4) The enterprise shall give adequate opportunity to the
technovator to furnish the assistance rendered in subsection (3).
(5) Once the technovation certificate has been issued, the
technovator shall not communicate his or her technovation to any
person other than the enterprise and shall not use it except in
collaboration with the enterprise.
(6) Where the enterprise declares that it does not intend to use
the technovation or where the enterprise, having declared its intention
to use the technovation, does not start using it within six months from
the issue of the technovation certificate or the expiration of the period
referred to in subsection (2), the technovator is exempted from the
obligations referred to in subsections (3) and (5).
(7) Notwithstanding subsection (6) the technovator has the right to
communicate his or her technovation to others only to the extent that the
communication does not involve the communication of any know-how
or other knowledge that has been acquired as an employee.
86. Remuneration of the technovator.
Where the enterprise uses the technovation or communicates it to a
third person, the technovator is entitled to a remuneration, the amount
and method of payment of which shall, in the absence of an
applicable collective bargaining agreement, be fixed by mutual
agreement between the technovator and the enterprise.
87. Derogation by contract.
A contractual provision that is less favourable to employees or
technovators than the provisions of this Part is void.
88. Disputes
(1) A dispute which concerns the application of this Part shall be
submitted by any interested party to an arbitration board consisting of
three members: one member appointed by the complainant, the
second member appointed by the party complained against, and a
chairperson appointed by the two members.
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