Patents Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Employees’ Inventions
50. Supplementary provisions
Feedback & supportThis Part does not apply to an invention made by an employee unless at the time the employee made the invention one of the following conditions was satisfied in the employee’s case:
employee
“employee” means a person who works or (where the employment has ceased) worked under a contract of employment or in employment under or for the purposes of a Government department;
the employee was mainly employed in Singapore;
the employee was not mainly employed anywhere or his or her place of employment could not be determined, but his or her employer had a place of business in Singapore to which the employee was attached, whether or not the employee was also attached elsewhere.
In this Part, except so far as the context otherwise requires, references to the making of an invention by an employee are references to the employee making it alone or jointly with any other person, but do not include references to the employee merely contributing advice or other assistance in the making of an invention by another employee.
Any references in section 49 to a patent and to a patent being granted are respectively references to a patent or other protection and to its being granted whether under the law of Singapore or the law in force in any other country or under any treaty or international convention.
patent
“patent” means a patent under this Act and includes a patent in force by virtue of section 117(3);
Nothing in this Part is to be construed as precluding the operation of an agreement or a contract in relation to the right to an invention.
right
“right”, in relation to any patent or application, includes an interest in the patent or application and, without prejudice to the foregoing, any reference to a right in a patent includes a reference to a share in the patent;