1. Under the ArbGE a German scientist and a U.S. scientist working for the same firm may receive differential financial recognition for a joint invention. Many multinational firms have incentive schemes so that a certain amount of money is paid for patentable inventions to inventors in countries that unlike Germany do not have federal guidelines for compensation of employees.
2. The privilege applied to full professors associate professors and lecturers in full-time employment. Visiting professors only fell under the exemption if they were employed full-time.
3. Bartenbach K., Volz F. E., Arbeitnehmererfinderrecht, , Haertel K., Krieger A., Kaube G., Eds. (Luchterhand, Neuwied, 2001)pp. v-vi.
4. Bartenbach K., Hellebrand O., Mitt. d. Dt. Patentanw.93, 165-170 (2002).
5. Article 24 bis of the Italian patent law as of October 2002 passed as law no. 383 on 18 October 2001.