Employee inventions: declaring your invention

The French Intellectual Property Code stipulates that any invention made by an employee must be subject to a procedure of declaration and classification of the invention. In practice, this procedure makes it possible to determine whether the employee inventor or the employer holds the rights to the invention and is entitled to apply for a patent.

The purpose of this fact sheet is to set out the procedures for declaring employee inventions, as well as the resulting rights and obligations for both employee and employer.